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From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Music and nazism
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 17:23:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 17:23:40 1985
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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