Glenn Miller taught people to swing with his music, both in times of war and peace. In December 1944, as a musical entertainer for the US Army and the most popular American musician of the Second World War, his plane crashed into the English Channel in circumstances that have never been fully explained. The biography of the famous band leader reflects this year’s motto for the Stuttgart Music Festival – “War and Peace”. On 7 September 2018 his music can be heard in the Mercedes-Benz Museum.