5 songs that Hitler listened to bunker before dying 80 years ago

The collection discovered by the daughter of the Soviet General shows that the dictator listened to composers, Jews and Russian gays

It is not surprising that composers liked it Wagner AND Beethoven were some of the favorites of Hitler. However, when he hid in the bunker at the end of the Second World War, the Nazi leader brought with him a surprising collection of albums that includes Russian composers and musicians, Jews and gays. He felt them until his death on April 30, 1945.

The discovery was initially published in the German magazine Der Spiegel In 2007, when Alexandra Besymenskaja, daughter of the Soviet general Lew Besymenski, rediscovered the material. His father was part of the bunker evacuation team and, passionate about music, brought albums with him.

Later, the collection was studied in detail by Fred Brouwers in the book Beethoven in bunker. Among the recordings, there is Tchaikovski, who was Russian and homosexual, Rachmaninov, and the executions of the Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, of Jewish origin and actively opposed Nazism.

In addition, the selection also contained jazz recordings, operettas and other styles considered “degenerated music” by the third Reich. Most composers, like Paul Abraham, were persecuted by Nazism.

Take a look at 5 compositions that Hitler heard in the bunker before he died

Adaptation from “Symphony No. 7?, By Anton Bruckner, with the Philharmonic of Berlin

Governed by Wilhelm Furwängler, recording of 1942.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnk_bhucdc

Sonata n. 24, in great doing, op. 78, by Beethoven: Adagio Cantabile – cheerful but not too much – and cheerful lively

With Artur Schnabel. Full recording of the 32 sonatas, carried out between 1932 and 1935.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oikz712Ox5g

Concert for violin and orchestra in Opus 35 detector, of Tchaikovsky, with Bronislaw Huberman (violin) and Berlin Orchestra State Opera

Ruled by William Steinberg (1899-1978). Movements: Moderate cheerful – song.andant – and final. Allegro Very Vivacid. Registration of December 28, 1928.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpwwoqj1doom

Paul Abraham and his 1930 orchestra: good night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlfvdmpnk8

And a modern recording of one of Abraham’s greatest successes, “Bal in Savoy (Toujours L’amour)”, with the soprano Angela Gheorghiu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peyyBSCS3AA

Source: Terra

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