"To be strong and civilised at the same time is very difficult..." musicologists about the politics: Jacques Handschin and Higini Anglés, from the correspondence of the 1930s

This article is based on the correspondence between two important European musicologists of the second quarter of the 20th century, Jacques Handschin and Higini Anglès. I analyse the political problems discussed in these letters as well as the influence of the political beliefs of the both scientists on their scientific concepts