Ambassadors of Music

Ambassadors of Music () 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.

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

Bibliography

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

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