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Thursday 5th December 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann, once described as 鈥榯he most significant twentieth century composer whose music you barely know鈥�. Hartmann saw culture and politics as being inseparable and in the 1920s and 30s he wrote works that raged against capitalism and the looming evil of National Socialism. He remained in Germany during the Second World War and continued to compose in private but refused to allow his works to be performed. In 1946, deemed ideologically sound by the occupying US Military, he set up Musica Viva - a concert series championing new music, that continues in Munich to this day and has been copied around the world. Petroc examines Hartmann鈥檚 times and legacy with the composer John McCabe, the conductor Ingo Metzmacher and Andreas Herm Baumgartner, conductor and Artistic Director of the 鈥淜arl Amadeus Hartmann Year 2013鈥� in Germany.

Broadcast in November 2013.
Photo: Copyright - Karl Amadeus Hartmann Gesellschaft