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Modern Art Foremost: One of the foremost excavators was Heinrich Schliemann, who took Homer as his guide for locating the indent sites of Troy and Mycenae. Such men as Sir Arthur Evans, who excavated at Knossos, poured money and enthusiasm into the new dis-soveries. The story of modern art foremost Greek archaeology an be presented by descriptions of some notable acavation projects.Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johai Christian Bach were the foremost German re resentatives of the style galant, pioneers of tl modern art foremost pianoforte, and of classical forms. Tl former was the author of an early and impo tant piano method and a systematic organizi of the sonata form (q.v.), applying his exploi also to symphonies. He was the prime model i young Haydn and his influence can be traced : the early piano sonatas of Beethoven, and it w; he who instilled a love for Italian melody inl the child Mozart.
Musical activity was gleichgeschaltet (geared to the Nazi ideology) and made subservient to political propaganda. Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer, so Wagner was Germany's foremost musical fare throughout the Third Reich era. Beethoven's yearning for liberty was twisted in the Nazi manner; Mendelssohn, Offenbach, and Meyerbeer were disavowed for racial reasons; modern art foremost music was outlawed as artfremd (of an alien kind). Many ranking musicians fled or shunned their homeland. Among those who came to live in the United States were conductors Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, and Fritz Busch, violinist and composer Adolf Busch, singers Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Schumann, producer Carl Ebert, and musicologists Curt Sachs and Alfred Einstein. |
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