#entartete — Public Fediverse posts
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When German fascism came to power, it interrupted a revolutionary experiment in freedom exemplified by two classical composers:
#Arnold #Schoenberg
and #Hanns #Eisler.In 1938, just two months after the Anschluss annexed Austria to Nazi Germany, an exhibition entitled #Entartete #Musik
— “degenerate music”
— opened in Düsseldorf.It was a culmination of the Nazis’ repressive cultural policy, which had strictly regulated German art, music, and architecture since 1933 in order to expel a perceived degeneracy
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/the-lyric-composers-of-the-concentration-camps