The Vienna
Philharmonic under National Socialism (1938 - 1945)
http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/orchestra/history/national-sozialism#659
In 1938, politics encroached upon the Vienna Philharmonic in
the most brutal manner. The National Socialists dismissed all Jewish artists
from the Vienna State Opera and disbanded the Association of the Vienna
Philharmonic. It was only the intervention of Wilhelm Furtwängler and other
individuals which achieved the nullification of the disbandment order and, with
two exceptions, saved the "half-Jews" and "closely-related"
from dismissal from the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. However, five members of
the orchestra perished in concentration camps, despite the intervention of the
new Nazi chairman of the orchestra, who attempted to rescue them from
deportation. Another two members died in Vienna
as a direct result of attempted deportation and persecution.
73rd Vienna
Philharmonic Ball,2014.
http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/ball/vienna-philharmonic-ball-2014
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014
Begin: 10:00 PM
Admission: 9:00 PM
End: 5:00 AM
Once a year the Musikverein becomes Vienna's most elegant ballroom