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Paul Hindemith had created many Romantic compositions and operas that were very well received by the public before the Nazi’s took power. Although some of this work was seen as risqué, such as his opera Neues vom

Aaron Copland is arguably one of the most important 20th century American composers. His uses of texture and tonal settings have contributed greatly to the way people think about film scoring and orchestral composition. During his life, he was at the forefront of his style, and his legacy is quite immense, including the founding of not only the AMC but also, with his passing, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. He was at times a critic, mentor, and above all, a chief organizer of what was and still is “America’s music”. Copland was born November 14, 1900, in New York. The son of Jewish immigrants, his cultural background, as well as his early childhood, contributed greatly to his musical and business dealings.

Schindler was a rescuer of the jews because he was not a fan of how they were treated. When asked why he saved them he replied by saying “I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.” Unlike the nazis and Hitler, Oscar Schindler saw jews as normal human beings and did not use them and make them do manual labor just to survive and not be killed. He did make them work just so the nazis did not come in and just kill all of them or take them back to a concentration camp and abuse them. The condition Oscar Schindler had was when he had the jews working for him that he didn’t want them to make any of the bullets functional and allow them to be fired and kill

Not only was it Jews that made up the 11 to 17 million people that died in the Holocaust.   According to Moore, “Thus, the Jewish presence in Germany, and later Europe, was seen as evil not only because of the threat of interbreeding, but also because of the infiltration of ‘inferior’ Jewish art and music. The German word entarte (degenerate) was applied to modern art, swing music, people who had nontraditional life styles, and individuals with mental disorders and physical handicaps, as well as to Jews, Afro-Germans, and the Sinti and Roma (Gypsies). Many applications of ‘degeneracy’ were made to the works of non-Jews, but ultimately all Jewish influences on culture were to be eliminated.”

Edward MacDowell was a popular composer who favored the late romantic programmatic style over the classical German Romanticism that was popular among his American contemporaries (Crawford & Hamberlin, 2013). At the age of 16, MacDowell began studying piano and composition in Europe where he had some of his early compositions published. Upon returning to the United States he continued teaching, composing and performing in the Boston area. After becoming on of the nation’s leading musicians, he began teaching at Columbia University. Prior to his time at Columbia he wrote a few symphonic works, however his duties at the university only allowed him to write smaller pieces (Crawford & Hamberlin, 2013).

John Adams is an American composer, best known for his operas, the symphonic fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work, On the Transmigration of Souls. He was born in Massachusetts, graduated with a BA and a MA from Harvard, and taught at the San Francisco Conservatory. In addition to directing the New Music Ensemble at the conservatory, he also worked in the electronic music studio. His work has become quite popular, especially Short Ride in a Fast Machine. His operas Nixon and China and Doctor Atomic are frequently performed nationally and internationally.

Later on in the thirties, Hindemith started to feel in charge of an ethnic immaculateness in his music, a conviction, without a doubt aroused by the Nazi hostile to musical advancement developments going ahead at the time. Additionally amid this period, he proceeded on from chamber attempts to a more noticeable inclination to Symphonic composition. While at this stage, his music got to be "smoother" and less centered around counterpoint. In 1937-39, Hindemith wrote extensively on the properties from the scale degrees and intervals in rankings from consonant to dissonant, in Craft of Musical Composition. In this later period after the distribution of his compositions, Hindemith composed concertos and sonatas for a large part of the standard

During World War II, anti-Semitic publications circulating throughout Germany display clear evidence of pervading the minds of young German children. Julius Steicher, editor of Der Stumer and the agent responsible for many of the anti-Semitic publications (Mills), helped dramatically initiate the German resistance toward Jews early on in a child’s life. It is important to understand the severity of anti-Semitism taught to the future Nazi generation in order to maintain the National Socialist state and further it’s agenda. By examining the ideas, and publications aimed towards children that express those ideals, it is clear that the National Socialist state wanted to indoctrinate a hateful, militant agenda into young children. Ultimately, the final result was to maintain the prejudice view that the Jewish people were the inferior race, and therefore the enemy for future generations.

Hundreds of musicians and composers were dismissed from their posts because of Section 3, Paragraph 1 of the law: “Civil servants who are not of Aryan descent are to be retired; if they are honorary officials, they are to be dismissed from their official status.” As stated previously, Bruno Walter fell victim to this cruel law and this was only the beginning for the Jewish musical society. Following in 1935, The Nuremberg Race Laws created a civil death for the Jews by professing their unnecessary lot in society and solved the question of

In the words of Jewish Austrian composer and painter Arnold Schoenberg; or Schönberg, harmony was freed from “the tyranny of tonality”. Schoenberg's term is interesting in its suggestion that the tonal system exerts an overpowering pressure to conform. The carefully ordered hierarchal keys; with its singularity, central focus on each movement or work, and tonal centres that made up the tonality of “centuries–old harmonic basis of music” became of less importance and “had outlived its usefulness” as atonality; which is “a system without key” that is “deliberately avoided” gained popularity. This music utilizes several chromatic notes with the intention of hearing no tonal centers.

Arnold Schoenberg believed that the developing harmonic language of the late nineteenth century had led to a musical crisis. He felt that tonality had been stretched to its absolute limits, and that what was to be said within its confines, was already best done by the great composers before him. Schoenberg believed he existed within a lineage of composers, and therefore, was the successor to deliver the next big innovation in music. This idea of pushing music forward is not a novel one though; we have long observed similar acts of musical righteousness. Simply consider the first chorus in a symphony as in Beethoven’s Ninth, or a requiem text that is not in Latin as in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. Our concern here, however, is not with the number of times in which the musical world has been overturned. Rather, it is whether or not Schoenberg is a credible addition to that tradition of innovative composers.

I would say that Webern uses minimalism, a regular symphony takes so long, and repeats previous material sometimes to nausea (just my opinion), but Webern gives you all that you need and lets you fill in the gaps mentally. Schoenberg uses a lot of layering, multiple different melodies and rhythms going on at the same time, this happens after the initial cannon where the different instrumental parts repeat the same motive, most of the piece revolves around that (0,1,4) set class.

I truly agree with the idea that studying "lives of individuals such as Schoenberg, we may be able to better understand why Nazism rose to power...." When I was reading the parts that stated children were taught to hate their enemies and churches support war, I thought that those could be some of the reasons why Nazism rose to power as well.

The founder of the “second Viennese School,” Arnold Schoenberg, was known as a prominent composer and a comprehensive theorist who addressed both aesthetic and philosophical issues. Schoenberg’s early works served to sum up Romantic ideas. Written in 1903 and orchestrated in 1910, Gurrelieder was a pinnacle of the Romantic style. Schoenberg composed

Arnold Schoenberg was born on 13th September 1874 in Vienna. He started taking violin lessons at the age of 8. One year later he started composing music. He also took some counterpoint lessons but for the most part he was self-thought. He lost his father at the age of 15 so he had to provide for his family. He left school and got a job at a bank. At that time Vienna’s infrastructure was modernizing. Vienna became an industrial city and cultural life improved. Schoenberg could not afford the cultural venues because he was poor. He went to concerts and stood behind the fence so he could hear the music for free. Later he left the bank and started conducting and orchestrating