Karl Straube (1873-1950)
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Berlin 1873-1897
Headwaters
Mentors
Liftoff
Part II. Wesel 1897-1902
New Beginnings
Reger
"I'd like finally to get on with it!"
Part III. Leipzig 1903-1918
A Berliner in (Little) Paris
Off the Organ Bench
Trouble in Paradise
"In my naïveté"
Emmi Leisner
Deaths and Transfigurations
Deaths and Transfigurations
Part IV. Intermezzo: Leipzig 1918-1920
Decision Point
Portraits in Ambivalence
Part V. Leipzig 1920-1929

On the Road and at the Negotiating Table
Politics I
"When the days of darkness come"
Colleagues
The Treadmill
Movements in Time
"God preserve Karl Straube"
Part VI. Leipzig 1930-1939
Bach on Air
Politics II
Praeceptor Germaniae
The Spring of Our Discontent
Beyond the Rhine
Deceptive Cadence
Tempelreinigung
Part VII. Leipzig 1940-1950
The Franciscan Way
Perils
Götterdämmerung 1943
Gone with the Wind
Reckonings
"Like sand through the fingers"
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index