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Music Reviews
12:41 pm
Mon August 29, 2011

Furtwangler: A Complex German Operatic Composer

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German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler.

Wilhelm Furtwangler's name may be hard for Americans to pronounce, but the reason this great conductor is not so well-remembered here is that he chose to remain in Germany during the Second World War, though he was never a member of the Nazi Party, and he was completely exonerated by a postwar tribunal.

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