The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany
Professor Neil Gregor has just published The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025), a study of how German musical worlds were remade – and remade themselves – under conditions of Nazi dictatorship. To accompany the book he has curated a Spotify playlist that seeks to open up the worlds of performing and listening that the book describes. He writes:
In the 1930s and 1940s the recording of orchestral music was still very much in its infancy.
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