The Mozart Week of the German Reich
Nazi Propaganda and Franco-German Relations in 1941
Series: Eastman Studies in Music; 212;
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 30 June 2026
- ISBN 9781648251085
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages212 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 b/w illus. 700
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A piercing investigation showing how a glittering Mozart music festival in 1941 Vienna became a powerful instrument of Nazi propaganda in both annexed Austria and occupied France.
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"A piercing investigation showing how a glittering Mozart music festival in 1941 Vienna became a powerful instrument of Nazi propaganda in both annexed Austria and occupied France. Vienna, November 28, 1941. At the Konzerthaus, the overture to Don Giovanni opened a monumental ""Mozart Week of the German Reich"" orchestrated by National Socialist authorities for the 150th anniversary of Mozart's death. In the ensuing days, the best German artists performed an astounding musical program intended for the broadest audience-military, officials, and residents of the Reich, as well as citizens of some twenty neutral, allied, or occupied countries. Among them, the French delegation, comprised of twenty-two French guests including renowned composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt, was the explicit target of a veritable charm offensive. Based on wide-ranging German and French sources, this book interrogates this significant instance of music propaganda by the Nazis, which led to major repercussions for collaborators within the French musical elite. Far from being the result of unified propagandist intentions, the details of the event's organization reveal notable political disharmony between several Nazi party authorities. Yet these tensions remained invisible to the French delegation, who were seduced by the grandeur and exceptional quality of the festival. Upon returning to Paris, they published glowing accounts, enabling the transmission of a propagandistic discourse that presented Mozart as an Aryan, German, and (by this definition) universal composer."
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Making of a Festival Chapter 2: Courting the French Chapter 3: Viennese Seductions Chapter 4: A Nazified Mozart Chapter 5: Reactions from Paris Epilogue: Post-War Dissonance Appendix 1: Program of the Mozart Conference Presented as Part of the German Reich's Mozart Week Appendix 2: Allied, Occupied, Satellite, and Neutral Countries Represented at the German Reich's Mozart Week Bibliography Index
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