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EBOOK Devil's Music Master:The Controversial Life and Career of Wilhelm Furtwangler
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199923410
EAN: A72B4259EB
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Stron: 544
Data wydania: 1992
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From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwangler was the foremost cultural        music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna        Philharmonic orchestras. But a cloud still hangs over his reputation, despite his        undeniable brilliance as a musician, because of a fatal and tragic decision. Wilhelm        Furtwangler remained in Germany when thousands of intellectuals and artists fled        after the Nazis seized power in 1933. His decision to stay behind earned him lasting        condemnation as a Nazi collaborator--"e;The Devil's Music Master."e; Decades after his        death, Furtwangler remains for many not only the greatest but also the most        controversial musical personality of our time.In The Devil's Music Master, Sam H.          Shirakawa forges the first full-length and comprehensive biography of Furtwangler.          He surveys Furtwangler's formative years as a difficult but brilliant prodigy, his        rise to pre-eminence as Germany's leading conductor, and his development as a        musician, composer, and thinker. Shirakawa also reviews the rich recorded legacy        Furtwangler documented throughout his forty-year career--such as the legendary        Tristan with Kirsten Flagstad and the famous performances of Beethoven's Ninth        Symphony in 1942 and 1951.Equally important, Shirakawa goes backstage and behind the        lines to explore how the Nazis seized control of the arts and how Furtwangler        single-handedly tried to prevent evil characters as Propaganda Minister Joseph        Goebbels and Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goring from annihilating Germany's musical        life. He shows how Furtwangler, far from being a toady to the Nazis, stood up openly        against Hitler and Himmler--at enormous personal risk--to salvage the musical        traditions of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Shirakawa also presents moving and        overwhelming evidence of Furtwangler's astonishing efforts to save the lives of Jews        and other persecuted individuals trapped in Nazi Germany--only to be proscribed at        the end of the war and nearly framed as a war criminal.But there was more to        Furtwangler than his politics, or even his music, and we come to know this        extraordinary man as a reluctant composer, a prolific essayist and diary keeper, a        loyal friend, a formidable enemy when crossed, and an incorrigible philanderer.          Numerous musical luminaries share their memories of Furtwangler to round out this        vivid portrait.Based on dozens of interviews and research in numerous documents,        letters, and diaries, many of them previously unpublished, The Devil's Music Master        is an in-depth look at the life and times of a unique personality whose fatal flaw        lay in his uncompromising belief that music and art must be kept apart from        politics, a conviction that transformed him into a tragic figure.

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