‘Non, je ne regrette rien’
‘Non, je ne regrette rien’
Konrad Boehmer is the composer of numerous electro-acoustic, stage and instrumental works, a distinguished teacher of composition, music history and theory, and a prodigious writer on music, politics, and society. This chapter recounts his close involvement in the early 1970s with student communist parties in Germany and the Netherlands, and the questions that this involvement raised for his own compositional activities. Whilst the activism of these parties was in many ways naïve and short-sighted, the problems which they sought to address have only become more severe, a situation that today poses almost intractable difficulties for composers wishing to pursue independent and socially meaningful aesthetic production.
Keywords: Konrad Boehmer, communism, KPD-AO, KEN-ML, Marx, Eisler, Maoism, North Korea, Stockhausen, Netherlands
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