Thursday, December 3, 2009

A Composer's Ties to Nazi Germany Come Under New Scrutiny

"The composer Jean Sibelius is arguably as important to early 20th-century music as Ezra Pound was to literary modernism. Now, more than 50 years after the Finnish composer died, in 1957, at the age of 91, a musicologist in Texas is claiming that Sibelius was culpably entangled with Nazi Germany, and should join Pound, Richard Wagner, and Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line in the select group of artists who have been cast into anti-Semitic ignominy."

For the full story, please see The Chronicle Review.

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