The last years of Goldschmidt's life witnessed a renewed interest in the composers of so-called "degenerate music."

He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory.

But in the case of degenerate music, a more convincingly nationalistic alternative was readily available.

They loved degenerate music and preached specious metaphysics.

Like degenerate art, examples of degenerate music were displayed in public exhibits in Germany beginning in 1938.

And in later years Strauss honored the regime whenever he was asked, conducting, for example, at the 1938 festival intended to separate "German" from "degenerate" music.

Unlike degenerate music, pop music was accepted as long as it reiterated the theme of nationalism.

Beginning in 1933 his compositions were labeled degenerate music.

But increasingly musicians have been trying to restore strains of this so-called degenerate music to their rightful place in the concert repertory.