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...managed to stay in the midst of Nazi musical politics until her escape from Germany before the war. Miss Geissmar was secretary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Her book gives an intimate picture of one of Nazi Germany's two world-famed musical figures, Conductor Wilhelm FurtwĠngler (the other: Composer Richard Strauss...
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique") (Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). Most neurotic of symphonies, straightforwardly performed in one of the most brilliant of all orchestra recordings. Made in London several years ago; no royalties go to Germany...
...Most-talked-of conductor in Berlin was dark, handsome, poised, 30-year-old Herbert von Karajan. He waves the baton at the State Opera, is rated only a notch below deaconlike Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler of the Berlin Philharmonic...
...festival's general program had changed little, but the personnel had changed much. In the place of the absent Toscanini reigned Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...
...Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none of the younger generation...