Furtwangler rehearsals Schubert Symphony No.8

Furtwangler rehearsals Schubert Symphony No.8 in 1951

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• Furtwangler
• rehearsal

[chibacom]

I'm sorry to say, these movie and music aren't synchronized.

[franciszhou]

Yes, you are right. But it is historical documentary. I am so sorry for it.

[phe957]

He was not a Nazi supporter. He was against the regime and he saved the lives of many Jews and others.

[sam0xin]

ONE & ONLY ! FURTWANGLER !

...so unlucky with the period of political mess & reality..

[123must]

He was not a Nazi supporter. He was against the regime and he saved the lives of many Jews and others.

Thank you phe957

[WallyfromPgh]

I wasn't knocking Toscanini, but how do you explain the famous Furtwangler being barred from touring and then replaced by Karajan? Karajan was a Nazi party member, Furtwangler never was.

[al1936ful]

@WallyfromPgh Horowitz's book is a travesty, and Toscanini's reputation is not based on a myth. If you want to read something accurate about Toscanini, read Harvey Sach's biography of the conductor. In that book, he demonstrates (as Horowitz conveniently neglects to do) how Toscanini was held in extremely high regard by virtually every other conductor, and by many musicians. He had an international reputation as the gtreatest conductor alive long before NBC even existed.

[paulostroff99]

@o0Prometheus0o -On that I fully agree,and it was indeed he that was the Nazi.

[Freudboy]

@LunaMirabeau of course he was THE god of conductors, perhaps all performing musicians.

[WallyfromPgh]

It's not the 'Jewish Mafia' that prevented Furtwangler from working in the U.S. after the war but rather the 'Toscanini Mafia.' NBC had created a myth about Toscanini being the God of All Music. Toscanini, naturally, was jealous of Furtwangler's skill and success and kept him out of the U.S. See Joseph Horowitz's book on Toscanini's role in the transformation of American musical culture.

[Freudboy]

@phe957 Yes, you are right. My parents were in Germany and Austria at the time (they left, my father for being Jewish, my mother for not wanting to live under the Nazis) and they told me that Furtwangler was adamantly opposed to the Nazis.

[dadaphony]

Goebbels was the minister and he was a conductor its very simple to understand.

[uhartchristian]

dont know the reasons why furtwaengler was told to remain by schoenberg and reinhardt but I think they knew he would not have had his place in another country. But this does not give any excuse for the collaboration with goebbels....

[YTM021807]

Amazing and awesome video BUT the sound is not syncronized and the voice at 2:50 almost ruins the clip. I have this same clip with the sound syncronized AND without the commentary. I think it it also available in DVD (Conductors in the 3rd Reich)