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Book SynopsisPainter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of music. She draws on extensive writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer evidence that music can and did serve ideological ends.
Trade ReviewFamiliar questions are addressed to freshly illuminating effect in Karen Painter’s
Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900–1945, one of the first books in English to take a wider historical view of the phenomenon of the politicization of classical music in Nazi Germany. -- Terry Teachout * Commentary *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Tradition in a Modern Age: Bruckner and Mahler at the Fin de Siecle 1. Symphonic Idealism in Crisis 2. Symphonic Conventions of a World Past 3. Sensuality and Redemption Part II: The Politics of Tradition: Mahler and Bruckner, 1914-1933 4. Mahler's Progressive Legacy and the Aestheticization of Violence 5. Bruckner's Nationalist Legacy and the Aestheticization of Space Part III: Symphonic Traditions under National Socialism 6. Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony and Symphony Ambitions under National Socialism 7. Symphonic Defeat Notes Index
