Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Music and Heritage in the German Democratic Republic 1
6. 1: Provincialism, Modernity, and the Classical Heritage: The Administrative Structure of the GDR and the Situation of Music Production 20
7. 2: Classicism as Anti-Fascist Heritage: Realism and Myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer’s Mansfelder Oratorium (1950) 34
8. 3: Positioning Georg Knepler in the Musicological Discourse of the GDR 58
9. 4: Ehrt euren Deutschen Meister: Reproducing Wagner in the GDR 75
10. 5: The Embodiment of Collective Memory in Neue Odyssee 97
11. 6: Marxism and Feminism in Ruth Berghaus’s Staging of Don Giovanni 119
12. 7: Beyond the Gewandhaus: Mahler and the GDR 135
13. 8: Hanns Eisler’s Funeral and Cultures of Commemoration in the GDR 157
14. 9: Exile—Remigration—Socialist Realism: The Role of Classical Music in the Works of Paul Dessau 183
15. 10: “What a Satisfying Task for a Composer!”: Paul Dessau’s Music for The German Story (. . .Du und mancher Kamerad) 195
16. 11: Friedrich Schenker and the Third Way 219
17. 12: A Prism of East German Music: Lothar Voigtländer 241
18. Notes on the Contributors 257
19. Index 261