I finally found time to hear it all because of some involuntary sofa-time.

It's a really interesting piece of music, but also a bit of a wasteland. When I heard the first movement I thought: Carl Nielsen but without the obvious melodies. In the second movement I thought Bramhs... but without the obvious melodies. This goes on except for the very strange and ugly fifh movement and the actually quite pretty sixth. His lack of talent for melodies sounds almost involuntary modern.

His nazi friends must have bored themselves to death with his music, but the fact that they did embrace him made me think of one interesting and also (in my opinion) reassuring fact: That the nazis were very aware of the artistic trends of their own time and succeeded in shaping a lot of it into their own perverted visions. They were progressives and revolutionaries in their own way, and managed to influence the advanced contemporary culture.

Modern days National conservatives are not, and have no influence on art. Trump, the conservative piece de resistance, is simply uncultured and his bad reputation (i guess) is more about his behaviour than his politics (or lack of same).

Thanks again for letting me know about this strange man.