The Ripper
10-22-2010, 06:19 AM
Texas professor sticks to view that Sibelius had Nazi sympathies
Timothy L. Jackson, Professor of Music Theory at the University of North Texas, is sticking to his views that Finnish composer Jean Sibelius had Nazi sympathies.
Jackson is convinced that when the Nazis took power in Germany, Sibelius made a 180-degree turn in his attitudes toward Germany’s Jewish artists and was careful not to show them any support, for fear of losing royalty payments.
Jackson’s ideas sparked intense discussion when he expressed his views at the Sibelius Academy and at the Institute of Political history of the University of Helsinki.
As Jackson sees it, the Finnish Civil War is still going on in Finland, with the country split into the left wing and the conservatives. “The left accepts my views, but the conservatives do not want to hear anything bad about Sibelius.”
He emphasises that admiration for the composer, or the lack of it, should not influence our views of what the composer was like as a person.
Jackson feels that Finns seem to have a need to gloss over the image of Sibelius.
However, when discussing Sibelius with Finnish music professionals and friends of Sibelius, his human weaknesses tend to come out more than any ethical strengths.
Jackson focuses on one piece of evidence, which is sufficient for him.
Sibelius had promised to write a recommendation for a half-Jewish German composer Günther Raphael, but when Raphael lost his professorship in 1934, he asked Sibelius for a letter of recommendation, which Sibelius never answered.
Jackson did not come up with the Raphael case on his own. Instead, he found it in a book on Raphael by German author Thomas Schinköth titled Das Ende aller Illusionen (“The End of All Illusions”).
Schinköth and Jackson agree that a small piece of paper speaking in favour of Raphael would have helped him save his job and his livelihood in spite of the laws concerning the Jews that were passed by the Nazis.
But would a recommendation by Sibelius have had such a strong impact in Nazi Germany?
“Sibelius was such an appreciated composer in Germany that he certainly could have helped Raphael”, Jackson says.
Historians who heard Jackson’s arguments dismissed them as having been backed up by inadequate evidence, which does not stand up under critical examination.
The historians explained to Jackson that when Finland fought against the Soviet Union, it needed war materiel from Germany to keep its independence, and that the relationship that Sibelius had with Germany should be seen against this background.
Jackson says that the United States would have guaranteed Finland’s independence if Finland had not joined with Germany to fight the Soviet Union. Finland’s co-belligerence with Nazi Germany clearly upsets Jackson, who is a Jew himself.
“My father, a professor of architecture, has said that Jews and Finns should not write books about Sibelius”, says Jackson, who does not lack a sense of humour.
One matter on which it is easy to agree with Jackson is that the perspective on Sibelius on the other side of the Atlantic is much different from that in Finland.
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Texas+professor+sticks+to+view+that+Sibelius+had++ Nazi+sympathies+/1135261068094
Arrogant, ignorant Yankee Jew. Of course he must have the privilige to spew any kind of shit over whomever he pleases, if there is the slightest inkling that this person might not have been a champion of Jews.
I wonder, how many Jewish communists took stance against Finland during WW II? Should Finns now take a similar to approach to those people? Every Jewish socialist should be held accountable for Stalin's crimes? Even that would be more generous than Jackson's treatment of Finland and Sibelius, we might just as well include every Jew that was pro-Soviet when it came to choosing between Germany and USSR. And his historical analysis is hilarious. Because the ethno-masochist left accepts his Nazi-accusations, a tactic well-known to them, and conservatives (and historians) reject them, there is obviously a civil war still going on in Finland. And saying that the United States would have guaranteed Finnish independence had we not aligned ourselves with Germany, what is this guy high on? How on earth does he suppose the US would have guaranteed that independence? :coffee:
Timothy L. Jackson, Professor of Music Theory at the University of North Texas, is sticking to his views that Finnish composer Jean Sibelius had Nazi sympathies.
Jackson is convinced that when the Nazis took power in Germany, Sibelius made a 180-degree turn in his attitudes toward Germany’s Jewish artists and was careful not to show them any support, for fear of losing royalty payments.
Jackson’s ideas sparked intense discussion when he expressed his views at the Sibelius Academy and at the Institute of Political history of the University of Helsinki.
As Jackson sees it, the Finnish Civil War is still going on in Finland, with the country split into the left wing and the conservatives. “The left accepts my views, but the conservatives do not want to hear anything bad about Sibelius.”
He emphasises that admiration for the composer, or the lack of it, should not influence our views of what the composer was like as a person.
Jackson feels that Finns seem to have a need to gloss over the image of Sibelius.
However, when discussing Sibelius with Finnish music professionals and friends of Sibelius, his human weaknesses tend to come out more than any ethical strengths.
Jackson focuses on one piece of evidence, which is sufficient for him.
Sibelius had promised to write a recommendation for a half-Jewish German composer Günther Raphael, but when Raphael lost his professorship in 1934, he asked Sibelius for a letter of recommendation, which Sibelius never answered.
Jackson did not come up with the Raphael case on his own. Instead, he found it in a book on Raphael by German author Thomas Schinköth titled Das Ende aller Illusionen (“The End of All Illusions”).
Schinköth and Jackson agree that a small piece of paper speaking in favour of Raphael would have helped him save his job and his livelihood in spite of the laws concerning the Jews that were passed by the Nazis.
But would a recommendation by Sibelius have had such a strong impact in Nazi Germany?
“Sibelius was such an appreciated composer in Germany that he certainly could have helped Raphael”, Jackson says.
Historians who heard Jackson’s arguments dismissed them as having been backed up by inadequate evidence, which does not stand up under critical examination.
The historians explained to Jackson that when Finland fought against the Soviet Union, it needed war materiel from Germany to keep its independence, and that the relationship that Sibelius had with Germany should be seen against this background.
Jackson says that the United States would have guaranteed Finland’s independence if Finland had not joined with Germany to fight the Soviet Union. Finland’s co-belligerence with Nazi Germany clearly upsets Jackson, who is a Jew himself.
“My father, a professor of architecture, has said that Jews and Finns should not write books about Sibelius”, says Jackson, who does not lack a sense of humour.
One matter on which it is easy to agree with Jackson is that the perspective on Sibelius on the other side of the Atlantic is much different from that in Finland.
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Texas+professor+sticks+to+view+that+Sibelius+had++ Nazi+sympathies+/1135261068094
Arrogant, ignorant Yankee Jew. Of course he must have the privilige to spew any kind of shit over whomever he pleases, if there is the slightest inkling that this person might not have been a champion of Jews.
I wonder, how many Jewish communists took stance against Finland during WW II? Should Finns now take a similar to approach to those people? Every Jewish socialist should be held accountable for Stalin's crimes? Even that would be more generous than Jackson's treatment of Finland and Sibelius, we might just as well include every Jew that was pro-Soviet when it came to choosing between Germany and USSR. And his historical analysis is hilarious. Because the ethno-masochist left accepts his Nazi-accusations, a tactic well-known to them, and conservatives (and historians) reject them, there is obviously a civil war still going on in Finland. And saying that the United States would have guaranteed Finnish independence had we not aligned ourselves with Germany, what is this guy high on? How on earth does he suppose the US would have guaranteed that independence? :coffee: