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Ambassadors of Music

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Ambassadors of Music
Directed byHermann Stöß
Written by
  • Wolfgang Brüning (idea)
  • Hermann Stöß
StarringHilde Körber
CinematographyEdgar S. Ziesemer
Production
company
Start Film
Distributed byAnton E. Dietz-Filmverleih
Release date
  • 6 January 1952 (1952-01-06)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

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]

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References

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  1. ^ Goehr p.173

Bibliography

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  • Lydia Goehr. Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory. Columbia University Press, 2011.
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