Yes, I would like to receive periodic updates and information via e-mail from Commentary.

Recipient Addresses:

Separate each address with a comma.

Your E-mail Address: Message:

On the spring day in 1945 that Nazi Germany’s official radio network broke the news of Adolf Hitler’s death, the announcement was followed by the playing of a 1942 recording by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic. The work chosen was the elegiac slow movement of Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. This was the last of countless times that classical music, most of it written by Bruckner and Richard Wagner, Hitler’s two favorite composers, was played on Nazi ceremonial occasions, or otherwise enlisted in the service of the Third Reich.

---

© 2009 Commentary Inc.