demusic1-10, Exercise 3: A five-event timeline

Model answer (one possible choice; check each date):

1. 1829: Mendelssohn conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion in Berlin. It shows the building of the myth, since the revival raised Bach into a national figure.
2. 1876: the first Bayreuth festival. It marks the creation of a national musical pilgrimage and Wagner's place in German identity.
3. 1933 to 1938: the Nazi regime takes control, bans works and stages the "degenerate music" exhibition. It shows the misuse: the national tradition claimed for a regime and the people who did not fit driven out.
4. 1974: Kraftwerk's Autobahn. It shows the reinvention, a German sound that was neither folk song nor Anglo-American rock, and that reached the world.
5. 1989 to 1991: the fall of the Wall, Bernstein's Ninth in Berlin and the rise of Berlin's clubs. It shows the myth of musical greatness giving way to a new, more open picture of German music.

Other defensible choices include 1723 (Bach in Leipzig) or the 1990s rise of Turkish-German hip-hop. The point is to give a reason for each pick.