Music and Exile : From 1933 to the Present Day

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.

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.