A classical music competition with the title ”Degenerate Music” will take place in Germany later this month focussing on works and composers derided or banned by the Nazis, organisers announced on Thursday.
About 60 musicians from 13 nations will take part in the competition in Schwerin, northern Germany, from September 22 to 26.
”This is the first time that such a competition has been held anywhere,” said competition official Volker Ahmels.
”We are doing this as our contribution to commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945.”
They will perform works by classical composers whose works were condemned during the Third Reich as ”degenerate” because of their political convictions or because the composers were Jewish.
They included Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Anton Webern, Erik Korngold, Otto Klemperer and others. – Sapa-DPA