Stephen Adams wrote:

> I have lately become more aware than ever of the damage done to music
> by Nazi Germany and the Second World War -- not just the disruptions
> and tragedies in the lives of individual composers (Webern, Schoenberg,
> Schulhoff, Krenek, Toch, Hartmann, Goldschmidt, etc etc), but the breaking
> off of the German tradition so central to all the music we love.

To say nothing of all the composers and musicians who were murdered,
of whom Schulhoff is only the best known: there were Pavel Haas, Gideon
Klein, Hans Krasa, Viktor Ullmann, many more.  Hitler was going to save
European culture; he destroyed it.  I've just finished reading, finally,
Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, about all the fatuous types who sat around
pontificating while that overgrown juvenile delinquent came to power.

Donald Clarke

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