Ambassadors of Music
1952 film
- Wolfgang Brüning (idea)
- Hermann Stöß
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Release date
- 6 January 1952 (1952-01-06)
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Ambassadors of Music (German: Botschafter der Musik) is a 1952 West German musical documentary film directed by Hermann Stöß.
Made in 1951, it charts the revival of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in post-war Germany under the leadership of Sergiu Celibidache. During the war the orchestra's concert hall had been bombed-out. The film portrays the Orchestra as part of a revived German culture, that had survived the Nazi years and was now presenting a positive image of the new West Germany to the people of Europe.[1]
Cast
- Hilde Körber
- Werner Finck
- Josef Pelz von Felinau
- Wolfgang Behrendt
- Albert Ebbecke
- Karla Höcker
- Margo Ufer
- Sergiu Celibidache as himself
- Wilhelm Furtwängler as himself
- Richard Strauss as himself, Archive footage
- Bruno Walter as himself
References
- ^ Goehr p.173
Bibliography
- Lydia Goehr. Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory. Columbia University Press, 2011.
External links
- Ambassadors of Music at IMDb
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