Music History Monday: Furtwängler

We mark the death on November 30, 1954 – 66 years ago today – of the German conductor and composer Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler, who was one of the most important and controversial musicians of the twentieth century. Wilhelm Furtwängler was born on January 25, 1886, in the German municipality of Schöneberg, which is today a district within the city of Berlin. He came from a highly respected, intellectually accomplished family: his father Adolf was an archaeologist and his mother a painter.…

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Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.