Denis comments:

>...  Furtwaengler came from a Munich family of high-society
>Bildungsbuerger; Strauss was Bavaria's star composer and an important
>local conductor, to boot; Orff was considered about as untouchable as
>the other two.  From such pedestals and with the squish of the regime's
>spiritual capital behind them, they could afford to take a risk or two.
>I salute them for it.

And at least as worthy of salute, is Karl Amadeus Hartmann, also of
Munich, who went into a deep internal emigration until the war was over.

Incidentally, Michael Steinberg, in his excellent collection of program
notes on The Symphony, tells of Hartmann travelling to Austria during
the war to take lessons from Webern, and being repellled by Webern's
pro-Nazi sympathies.

Bernard Chasan