Karl Straube (1873-1950) : Germany's master organist in turbulent times /
"In the course of a multifaceted career, Karl Straube (1873-1950) rose to positions of immense cultural authority in a German musical world caught in unprecedented artistic and sociopolitical upheaval. Son of a German harmonium-builder and an intellectually inclined English mother, Straube esta...
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Eastman studies in music.
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Table of Contents:
- Karl Straube (1873-1950)
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Berlin 1873-1897
- Headwaters
- Mentors
- Liftoff
- Part II. Wesel 1897-1902
- New Beginnings
- Reger
- "I'd like finally to get on with it!"
- Part III. Leipzig 1903-1918
- A Berliner in (Little) Paris
- Off the Organ Bench
- Trouble in Paradise
- "In my naïveté"
- Emmi Leisner
- Deaths and Transfigurations
- Deaths and Transfigurations
- Part IV. Intermezzo: Leipzig 1918-1920
- Decision Point
- Portraits in Ambivalence
- Part V. Leipzig 1920-1929
- On the Road and at the Negotiating Table
- Politics I
- "When the days of darkness come"
- Colleagues
- The Treadmill
- Movements in Time
- "God preserve Karl Straube"
- Part VI. Leipzig 1930-1939
- Bach on Air
- Politics II
- Praeceptor Germaniae
- The Spring of Our Discontent
- Beyond the Rhine
- Deceptive Cadence
- Tempelreinigung
- Part VII. Leipzig 1940-1950
- The Franciscan Way
- Perils
- Götterdämmerung 1943
- Gone with the Wind
- Reckonings
- "Like sand through the fingers"
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
