PT Journal
AU Wehrmeyer, A
TI "Sudeten German Composers" - Approaches to a Difficult Category
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2020
BP 120
EP 139
VL 32
IS 2
DI 10.5507/mo.2020.016
DE "Sudeten German Composers"; Heinrich Rietsch (1860-1927); Rudolf Leberl (1884-1952); Hans Winterberg (1901-1991); Heinrich Simbriger (1903-1976); Roland Leistner-Mayer (1945)
AB For historical reasons, one could only speak of "Sudeten German composers" in relation to a narrow period from the end of the 19th up to and including the first half of the 20th century. But even then, the term is problematic because on the one hand it is highly politicized, i.e. inevitably projected onto the conflicts between Germans and Czechs, more precisely on the crimes of the National Socialists and their supporters in the 1930s and during the Second World War, and on the other hand, there seems to be no homogeneous group of "Sudeten German composers" that justifies this collective term. Based on the short portraits of five composer - Heinrich Rietsch (1860-1927), Rudolf Leberl (1884-1952), Hans Winterberg (1901-1991), Heinrich Simbriger (1903-1976) and Roland Leistner-Mayer (born 1945) - individual creative concepts outlined with their different tangents to the idea and milieu of Sudeten Germanism.
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