10-week course (afternoons): "Degeneracy" and Diaspora - Composers and the Third Reich, 1939-1945

The Nazi regime carried out vigorous campaign to suppress 'Entartete Musik' (Degenerate Music) which meant death for some composers. Others propsered (for a while) under the regime, some became 'internal exiles' or part of an artistic resistance, however many significant figures fled to other countries. This series traces these developments by looking at such representative figures as Schoenberg, Hindemith, Weill, Korngold, Eisler, Ullmann, Carl Orff and Boris Blacher.

Dates for this course are: Thursdays 2:30-4:00pm Oct 11, 18, 25, Nov 1, 15, 22, 29, Dec 6, 13

Anyone can enrol! Please contact Ruth Hill, Lifelong Learning Administrator, to enrol

• Course fee: £75.00
• Accreditation: 10 credits at Level 0
• Course Code: B07J006OS
• Key reading and references:
  • Michael Kater, Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits (Oxford University Press, 2000)
  • Reinhold Brinkmann & Christian Wolff, eds., Driven Into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States (University of California Press, 1999)
  • Guy Rickards, Hindemith, Hartmann and Henze (Phaidon Press, 1995)
• Method of Assessment: Teaching and Learning Questionnaire