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<br> Mr. Kater...has extracted masses of information from far-flung sources, including public and private archives in Germany and elsewhere, and has drawn level-headed, intelligent conclusions from his research.[T]he broadest and clearest study of classical music in Hitler's Germnay that has appeared to date.....Mr. Kater's treatment of the complicated-and hotly debated-case of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler is thorough and convincing....A great deal more is packed into The Twisted Muse, including fresh looks at the Wagner family's complicity with the Nazis and the cases of Paul Hindemith, ....and Herbert von Karajan....Anyone interested in the depressing but fascinating subject of art and politics will find this book exceptionally worthwhile. --Wall Street Journal<br> Kater...has done prodigious primary research, much of it in hitherto unexamined files, to emerge with a mountain of fresh material....Anyone seriously interested in the interface of art and a peculiarly threatening

Michael H. Kater ... addresses the question in The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich ... reaching some interesting conclusions. * Charles Osborne, The Daily Telegraph * A very readable and intriguing book for those interested in the impact of Nazism on cultural life in Germany. * Ralph F. Wells, Richard Strauss Society * The merit of the book lies in its detailed factual picture of the background for music and musicians in those troubled times. * Ralph F. Wells, Richard Strauss Society *

<br> Mr. Kater...has extracted masses of information from far-flung sources, including public and private archives in Germany and elsewhere, and has drawn level-headed, intelligent conclusions from his research.[T]he broadest and clearest study of classical music in Hitler's Germnay that has appeared to date.....Mr. Kater's treatment of the complicated-and hotly debated-case of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler is thorough and convincing....A great deal more is packed into The Twisted Muse, including fresh looks at the Wagner family's complicity with the Nazis and the cases of Paul Hindemith, ....and Herbert von Karajan....Anyone interested in the depressing but fascinating subject of art and politics will find this book exceptionally worthwhile. --Wall Street Journal<p><br> Kater...has done prodigious primary research, much of it in hitherto unexamined files, to emerge with a mountain of fresh material....Anyone seriously interested in the interface of art and a peculiarly threateni

Mr. Kater...has extracted masses of information from far-flung sources, including public and private archives in Germany and elsewhere, and has drawn level-headed, intelligent conclusions from his research.[T]he broadest and clearest study of classical music in Hitler's Germnay that has appeared to date.....Mr. Kater's treatment of the complicated-and hotly debated-case of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler is thorough and convincing....A great deal more is packed into The Twisted Muse, including fresh looks at the Wagner family's complicity with the Nazis and the cases of Paul Hindemith, ....and Herbert von Karajan....Anyone interested in the depressing but fascinating subject of art and politics will find this book exceptionally worthwhile. --Wall Street Journal<br> Kater...has done prodigious primary research, much of it in hitherto unexamined files, to emerge with a mountain of fresh material....Anyone seriously interested in the interface of art and a peculiarly threatening political culture will find [this book] endlessly fascinating. --Publishers Weekly<br> [Gives] more analytical attention to the entire [Nazi] era's secrets. Kater...has combed newspaper archives, studied economic statistics, interviewed surviving composers and meticulously correlated information from denazification proceedings. His account...is the most throrough and nuanced now available of Nazi musical alliances, allegiances and ambiguities....[B]rings us to a more complicated understanding without tolerating latent defenses of old friends or 'Vissi d'Arte' alibis. --New York Times Book Review<br> Fills a conspicuous lacuna in 20th-century musicology. Kater...presents a detailed, disturbing, butalways compelling account....There is a great deal here to engage scholars and professional musicians as well as general readers interested in the study of music and ideology. Highly recommended for all libraries. --Library Journal<br> The best source of information about conductors and other musicians in the Third Reich is now Mr. Kater's book, dense with facts, many of them newly unearthed. --New York Times<br>

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Michael H. Kater is Distinguished Research Professor of History at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University, Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also the author of Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany (OUP, 1992).

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