Analysis of the Concept of War Based on Clausewitz’s Theory in the Leading Musical Works of Germany During Worlds War II

Musical works and music art during World War II have been described as an effective and motivational factor for the nations involved in the war. For these nations, the leading musical works appeared and were used to be in line with their strategic aim in the war, and it was a decisive factor for the forces involved in the battle. Since these works of music are directly related to the phenomenon of war, carrying particular implications at a specific time and geography, they can be analyzed alternatively as an influential factor in the war through the concept of the "Moral Factors" of the Clausewitz War Theory. The "Moral Factors" of the War relevant to Music works are a series of elements through which musical works, like a tool, draw a "commonplace" to reach the society for fighting in the scene of the war. This concept is used here to show the way that prominent musical works in a specific country at the time of World War II had appeared as an armed force with a determined common goal for accomplishing the strategic plan which, at this particular time, dominated the whole musical milieu that existed. The focus of this article has been limited to Germany during World War II, the situation where Wagner's operas became leading Musical Works by Hitler and the Nazi Party, which was by no means accidental.  From the moment they founded their party, they advanced “Nazification” in music, and from that point, the musical currents incompatible with their instructions were eliminated and dismissed as "worthless" or “Degenerated.” With the beginning of the Second World War, the supporters of the Nazi Party, along with the war that their commanders started with the aim of conquering the world so that the Aryan race would stand above other races, had to direct their own musical identity by creating common goals for their people and soldiers. And in the meantime, Wagner's operas were able to act as "Moral Factors" and found implications aligned with these dominant goals to announce the promise of Nazim's common ideals to the German people.