Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Music and nazism Message-ID: <1516@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:57:35 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1516 Posted: Wed Aug 7 13:57:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 01:39:56 EDT Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 35 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