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- ↑ Michael Haas Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis 0300154313 2013 "Die Bakchantinnen, 1929—30, would be the culmination of this experimentation with dance, movement, chant and pageantry."
- ↑ Julia Meszaros, Johannes Zachhuber Sacrifice and Modern Thought 0199659281 2013 - Page 242 "More ambiguous is Egon Wellesz's opera Die Bakchantinnen (1931), for which he wrote the libretto. Wellesz outdoes Euripides by directly representing the death of Pentheus, and the massed, torch-bearing Maenads who advance on him may represent the gathering forces of National Socialism."
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