RE: (western) classical music discussion
April 5, 2016 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2016 at 11:14 am by abaris.)
(April 5, 2016 at 10:11 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I know, right? He conducted my preferred recordings of Beethoven's symphonies, Rosenkavalier, Haydn's Creation, and Debussy's orchestral works, but, at the end of the day, he still owed his career to the Nazis.
But he was born in 1914. He started his career under dubious circumstances, but he never got into an official position in one of the institutions determining the fate of fellow artists. That's why I didn't mention him before.