How Furtwängler rebuilt his myth after 1945

How Furtwängler rebuilt his myth after 1945

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norman lebrecht

November 06, 2019

In the latest of my videocasts for the DG box set, I look at the conductor’s careful reconstruction of history and image – his own and that of the Berlin Philharmonic. ‘The players forgave him for abandoning them.’

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