Composing for the State Music in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships [#985392]

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English | ISBN: 0367229218 | 2019 | 236 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Under the dictatorships of the twentieth century, music never ceased to sound. Even when they did not impose aesthetic standards, these regimes tended to favour certain kinds of art music such as occasional works for commemorations or celebrations, symphonic poems, cantatas and choral settings. In the same way, composers who were more or less ideologically close to the regime wrote pieces of music on their own initiative, which amounted to a support of the political order.