Entartete Musik
Entartete Musik (degenerate music) was a concept promoted by the German Third Reich in order to suppress everything that they thought was politically and doctrinally off-key. Things that they thought were foreign influences, not sufficiently Germanic. They started off by attempting to discredit or ban visual arts, moving on to music, influenced by decades of anti-Semitic writing on music and debates about the relationship between music and mental illness.
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Michael Barenboim
Violinist Michael Barenboim is in Auckland to perform Schoenberg's Violin Concerto in the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's concert called 'Degenerate'. The works by Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and… Audio
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Entartete Musik
Robert Johnson talks about the composers and music exiled or banned during the Nazi Regime (RNZ) Audio
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Michael Haas
Michael Haas, music producer, author and curator talks about his research into music forbidden under the Nazis. Audio
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WEINBERG: Cello Concerto
It was not only in Nazi Germany that certain music was considered degenerate. Soviet leaders branded much contemporary music as 'Formalist'. Polish-born Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) emigrated to… Audio
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Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint
20 Apr 2014New York's Neue Galerie is presently running an exhibition on the modern art that was bitterly attacked by the Nazis, who mockingly ran "degenerate art" exhibitions around Germany in the late 1930s… Audio
