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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Music and nazism
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:57:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  7 13:57:35 1985
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I'm compiling a list of composers, conductors, musicians & critics
who were nazis, nazi sympathizers, worked for the third reich or at 
least had cordial relations with it.  I'd appreciate any information.

My list so far includes:

Composers (& relatives): 
	Carl Orff
	Richard Strauss
	Hans Werner Henze's father
	(What about Hans Pfitzner, the late-late Romantic opera composer?)

Conductors (almost everyone!):
	Karl Bohm
	Wilhelm Furtwangler
	Herbert von Karajan (in many ways, the worst: an incredible liar
             		     & apparently completely unrepentant)
	Eugen Jochum?

Musicians:
	Kirsten Flagstad, deported from the US in late 30s for effusive
			  praise of nazism
	Lawrence Melchior, deported along with Flagstad
	Walter Gieseking
	(the Austrian pianist Fischer, teacher of Alfred Brendel ?)

I'm also looking for similar information about the various fascisms
(Italy, Spain & Portugal, France, eastern Europe):

Composers:
	Gian Francesco Malipiero, compiled definitive edition of Vivaldi 
				  (?) plus major editions of Monteverdi
Musicians:
	Beniamino Gigli
	Michelangelo de Benedetti