Music and Exile

From 1933 to the Present Day
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54065-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies

How did exiled musicians from Germany and Austria, who reached safety at Kitchener Camp in Britain, find themselves in an Australian internment camp in New South Wales in 1940? What were the institutions that helped Jewish refugee musicians survive in wartime Shanghai? What happened to Austrian musicians who were trapped in the Netherlands after the German occupation?

These and other questions, and the larger stories they refer to, form the compelling content of this book. Other topics include the struggle of the Vienna operetta composers Granichstaedten and Katscher in USA, the relationship of émigré composer Berthold Goldschmidt to his native Hamburg and the reception of his ‘exile opera’ Beatrice Cenci. Studies of Mischa Spoliansky’s music for the movie Mr. Emmanuel(1944) and Franz Reizenstein’s radio opera Anna Kraus form part of the fourteen essays on exile musical history in Britain, Europe, USA, Australia and the Far East, based on cutting edge archival research and interviews by leading scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Miller, Malcolm

Raab Hansen, Jutta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day

Malcolm Miller and Jutta Raab Hansen

1 The Musical Identity of the Austrian Exile

Michael Haas

2 An Ambiguous Story – Austrian Music Exile in the Netherlands

Primavera Driessen Gruber

3 Vom Kitchener Camp in australische Wüstenlager: Der Weg jüdischer Exil-Musiker über Großbritannien nach Down Under

Albrecht Dümling

4 Creation of Jobs, Union Work and Cooperation: The Institutionalisation of Musical Life by the European Jewish Artist Society, the Shanghai Musicians Association, and the Association of Jewish Precentors in the Shanghai Exile, 1938–49

Sophie Fetthauer

5 ‘A State of Crass Ideological Confusion’: Avant-Garde Music and Antisemitism in the Free German League of Culture

Florian Scheding

6 ‘Almost as Impressive as Its Legacy in the Visual Arts’: Ben Uri Art Society and Music in Exile, 1931–60

Rachel Dickson

7 Goldschmidt and Hamburg

Peter Petersen

8 Preisgekrönt und doch kein Glück? Anmerkungen zu Berthold Goldschmidts Belcanto-Oper Beatrice Cenci

Barbara Busch

9 ‘A Place of Refuge in Your Arms’: Reizenstein’s Anna Kraus as Holocaust Opera

Malcolm Miller

10 Von großen Erfolgen in der Zwischenkriegszeit zu relativer Vergessenheit: Die Komponisten Bruno Granichstaedten und Robert Katscher im Exil

Hanja Dämon

11 Encounters with the Émigré Experience: Discovering the Chamber Music and Songs of Peter Gellhorn

Norbert Meyn

12 Visits in Four Cities: Stations in the Musical and Familial Life of the Song Composer Max Kowalski (1882–1956)

Nils Neubert

13 Der österreichische Musiker Ferdinand Rauter als Musiktherapeut in Camphill bei Aberdeen in Schottland (1945 bis 1947)

Jutta Raab Hansen

14 Mischa Spoliansky’s Music for the Movie Mr. Emmanuel (1944)

Jörg Thunecke

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Malcolm Miller, musicologist and pianist, is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK. He received his doctorate at King’s College London and has published widely on Beethoven, Wagner and contemporary music. His essay ‘Music as Memory: British Émigré Composers and their Wartime Experience’ appears in The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth-Century Music (Böhlau Verlag, 2014).


Jutta Raab Hansen, Dr phil (1995), Hamburg University, has published on musicians’ exile in Great Britain, including NS-verfolgte Musiker in England: Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Flüchtlinge in der britischen Musikkultur (von Bockel, 1996) and Elena Gerhardt: Mein Lieder-Leben. Memorien, transl., edited, commented, Kamprad, 2012.