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In this thoughtful, intelligent account, Brendan Fay forcefully challenges the notion that Weimar-era conservative critics were always the intellectual outriders for Nazism that they have often been painted as being. He reminds us of the open, varied and contested nature of conservative thought in the 1920s. In doing so he invites us to re-examine the relationship between Weimar-era politics and culture in fresh and provocative ways. * Neil Gregor, Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UK * Classical Music in Weimar Germany provides an important corrective to our tendency to regard tradition and modernism as simple opposites. Fay uncovers the free-wheeling exchange of opinion and activism among conservatives and progressives in the years between the end of the First World War and the Nazi seizure of power. This is a revelatory and eloquent work of interpretation, illuminating a crucial period of German musical development. * Celia Applegate, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA *

In this thoughtful, intelligent account, Brendan Fay forcefully challenges the notion that Weimar-era conservative critics were always the intellectual outriders for Nazism that they have often been painted as being. He reminds us, instead, of the open, varied and contested nature of conservative thought in the 1920s. In doing so he invites us to re-examine the relationship between Weimar-era politics and culture in fresh and provocative ways * Neil Gregor, Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UK * Brendan Fay's Classical Music in Weimar Germany provides an important corrective to our tendency to regard tradition and modernism as simple opposites. He uncovers the criss-crossing, free-wheeling exchange of opinion and activism among conservatives and progressives in the years between the end of the First World War and the Nazi seizure of power. His account is sophisticated and insightful; this is a revelatory and eloquent work of interpretation, illuminating a crucial period of German musical development. * Celia Applegate, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA *

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Brendan Fay is Assistant Professor in the School of Library & Information Management at Emporia State University, USA. He has been published in Current Musicology and Cultural History.

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