Symphonic aspirations: German music and politics, 1900 - 1945

Abstract

Tradition in a modern age : Bruckner and Mahler at the fin de siècle -- Symphonic idealism in crisis -- Symphonic conventions of a world past -- Sensuality and redemption -- The politics of tradition : Mahler and Bruckner, 1914-1933 -- Mahler's progressive legacy and the aestheticization of violence -- Bruckner's nationalist legacy and the aestheticization of space -- Symphonic traditions under National socialism -- Symphonic ambitions and Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler symphony -- Symphonic defeat