1. Can Music Be Political?
His Fifth Symphony is one of the most debated examples of whether or not music can be political. ... This is just one example of how the culture and the time can affect how its audience perceives a piece of music. ... Orff never actually belonged to any Nazi party but his work was considered to be some of the greatest examples of Nazi art, and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do with Nazi Germany, but his cantatas, which were controversial, were set to German medieval poetry (in Latin and Bavarian dialect), and classical texts by Ca...
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