Here's an article about how Hitler used music as a WMD on his own people. Looks like no German composer was left unsullied.

Reaching back into the 18th and 19th centuries, Hitler mobilized Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Bruckner and Wagner to stir the masses in a musical language that was purely German.

Today, in cultural terms, the Nazis are usually remembered for what they were against. In music, this meant Jewish composers like Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Mahler, Jewish librettists like Stefan Zweig and myriad Jewish musicians. It also meant atonal and avant-garde music by the likes of Arnold Schonberg, Alban Berg and Kurt Weill, as well as jazz, swing and anything associated with black American music...


The last paragraph is rather interesting ...

A more chilling reminder of the regime's identity with music comes at the end of the exhibition: a recording of a Berlin radio broadcast on May 2, 1945, in which one Karl Hanke announced, "The Fuhrer is dead." Hanke's long paean to Hitler then climaxed in music. The chosen work was Schubert's Eighth Symphony, the "Unfinished." For the defeated Nazis, it was a metaphor for Hitler's life work.

In light of this discussion, that Symphony just might get Finished yet!

daylia


PS   Sorry if I'm just not getting the humor here. I love music, I consider it sacred .... and to think of it being used as a WMD makes me wanna haul off and HIT SOMETHING (not someone but something) REAL HARD!!!