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.Goehr p.173
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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