Musical Life in Germany [antikvár]

Richard Jakoby im0I>UC7l0M: fi MAID OF MUSIC T fter the end of the Second World War the political division of Germany, with the Federal Republic of Germany in the West and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the East, created different attitudes to the relation between the state and art; consequently, music making, music teaching and training and the organization of musical life also diverged. When the two German states were unified in 1989 the process of growing together again could start, intellectually and psychologically, in musical life as well. After more than four decades of political separation that process will certainly go on for quite a few years yet. But it is already clear that music, like all forms of culture, can play an essential part in bringing the two parts of Germany back together again, it can help to make up shortcomings and offer means of expressing the new sense of social identification on the basis of our common history, our intellectual and cultural heritage, indeed, what we have in common generally. Like every intellectual sphere, art cannot exist without freedom. We are therefore very pleased that in the process of mutual give and take our musical culture, with its rich traditions, is again accessible to all Germans, in the East and in the West.