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Book SynopsisHow 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
