books.google.com - Following the collapse of the Wilhelmine Empire in Germany, a new generation of artists found a fresh environment where they might flourish. Their optimism was accompanied by an equally powerful distrust of the immediate past, for post-romanticism, and ultimately expressionism, served as symbols of a...http://books.google.com/books/about/Music_and_Performance_During_the_Weimare.html?id=wc7Yep5jcoYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMusic and Performance During the Weimarer Republic