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 Spolianskys music for the movie Mr. Emmanuel(1944) and Franz Reizensteins 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.
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,
193849
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, 193160
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: Reizensteins 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 (18821956)
Nils Neubert
13 Der österreichische Musiker Ferdinand Rauter als Musiktherapeut in
Camphill bei Aberdeen in Schottland (1945 bis 1947)
Jutta Raab Hansen
14 Mischa Spolianskys Music for the Movie Mr. Emmanuel (1944)
Jörg Thunecke
Index
Malcolm Miller, musicologist and pianist, is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK. He received his doctorate at Kings 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.
