Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gargoyle.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Music and nazism Message-ID: <150@gargoyle.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 17:23:40 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.150 Posted: Tue Aug 13 17:23:40 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:07:52 EDT References: <1516@bbncca.ARPA> Reply-To: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Organization: U. of Chicago, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 16 Re Walter Gieseking: The *International Cyclopaedia of Music and Musicians* says that the German pianist was suspected by a segment of the public of pro-Nazi sympathies, and protests forced the cancellation of his first postwar American recital in New York in 1949. Later he was cleared by an Allied court in Germany. In 1953 he made a triumphant return to the US; he died in 1956. Edwin Fischer apparently lived for a good many years in Berlin; an encyclopedia states that he returned to Switzerland in 1942. I have no information on his relationship, if any, with the Third Reich. He did hold a high teaching post at the (?) Berlin Hochschule until 1935, whatever that may mean. Moral (for me): research first, post later. Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes