German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886--1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both ...
German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886—1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both ...
Elisabeth Furtwangler was the widow of Wilhelm Furtwangler, one of the most controversial and charismatic orchestral conductors, whose links to the Third Reich remain hotly contested. For six decades ...
The unspoken challenge in Ronald Harwood’s superb play “Taking Sides,” about the historical Wilhelm Furtwangler and his relation with the Nazi regime (he was conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ...
Taking Sides is a historical drama set in post-WWII Germany. The story centers around a renowned German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwangler, who is questioned by a US investigator about his association ...
Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...
Reporter Dan Charles examines the controversial life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, who conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1920s until the mid 1950s. After World War Two, the Americans put ...
The New Yorker: The Disquieting Power of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Hitler’s Court Conductor
The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler has long held an exalted place among practitioners of the enigmatic art of waving one’s arms in front of an orchestra. A tall, willowy man with the air of a ...
Jazz: Wilhelm Furtwangler: Ludwig van Beethoven - Recordings during War Time conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler