PT Journal
AU Reittererova, V
TI "Some Musicians Create Music; Others Create Music History." Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944)
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2020
BP 93
EP 144
VL 31
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2020.005
DE Viktor Ullmann; inter-war music; Czechoslovakia; musical theatre; opera
AB The treatise focuses on the life and work of Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944), one of the personalities whose works contributed to the establishment of the music culture in Czechoslovakia in the period between the world wars. A Jewish composer, Ullmann was active in both the German-language and Czech-language environments. The ideology of national socialism stigmatized him as an author of the so-called "perverted music" and he became a victim of racial persecution. The biographical portrayal summarizes the beginning of his musical activities, and documents social-historical influences, as well as the philosophical and aesthetic background of his art and his activities. The treatise focuses in greater detail on his work in the field of musical theatre, its fate and reception; particular attention is paid to the opera Der Sturz des Antichrist [The Fall of the Antichrist].
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