Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day

326 Pages·11.766 MB·English

by  Malcolm Miller, Jutta Raab Hansen (eds.)

Music and Exile
Yearbook of the Research Centre
for German and Austrian
Exile Studies
Editorial Board
Charmian Brinson, Imperial College London
Jana Barbora Buresova, IMLR, University of London
Rachel Dickson, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Richard Dove†
Anthony Grenville, Association of Jewish Refugees
Andrea Hammel, Aberystwyth University
Stephanie Homer, IMLR, University of London
Bea Lewkowicz, IMLR, University of London
Sarah MacDougall, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Marian Malet, IMLR, University of London
Angharad Mountford, IMLR, University of London
Anna Nyburg, Imperial College London
Rachel Pistol, King’s College London
Andrea Reiter, University of Southampton
J.M. Ritchie†
Jennifer Taylor, IMLR, University of London
Ian Wallace†
volume 22
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Cover illustration foreground: Norbert Brainin and Peter Schidlof, Austrian-born members of the Amadeus
Quartet. 1960s pen and ink drawing by Milein Cosman (1921–2017), part of The Milein Cosman Collection of
The Wigmore Hall Trust. Reproduced by kind permission of The Wigmore Hall Trust; © The Cosman Keller
Art & Music Trust.
Cover illustration background: Manuscript Score of the final bars of The Cats, a movement for string
quartet, by Peter Gellhorn (1912-2004), composed in 1940 whilst interned at Mooragh Camp on the Isle of
Man. Reproduced by kind permission of the Gellhorn Family Archive.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction. Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day 1
Malcolm Miller and Jutta Raab Hansen
1 The Musical Identity of the Austrian Exile 10
Michael Haas
2 An Ambiguous Story – Austrian Music Exile in the Netherlands 29
Primavera Driessen Gruber
3 Vom Kitchener Camp in australische Wüstenlager: Der Weg jüdischer
Exil-Musiker über Großbritannien nach Down Under 53
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 75
Sophie Fetthauer
5 ‘A State of Crass Ideological Confusion’: Avant-Garde Music and
Antisemitism in the Free German League of Culture 94
Florian Scheding
6 ‘Almost as Impressive as Its Legacy in the Visual Arts’: Ben Uri Art
Society and Music in Exile, 1931–60 113
Rachel Dickson
7 Goldschmidt and Hamburg 134
Peter Petersen
8 Preisgekrönt und doch kein Glück? Anmerkungen zu Berthold
Goldschmidts Belcanto-Oper Beatrice Cenci 155
Barbara Busch
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9 ‘A Place of Refuge in Your Arms’: Reizenstein’s Anna Kraus as
Holocaust Opera 168
Malcolm Miller
10 Von großen Erfolgen in der Zwischenkriegszeit zu relativer
Vergessenheit: Die Komponisten Bruno Granichstaedten und Robert
Katscher im Exil 192
Hanja Dämon
11 Encounters with the Émigré Experience: Discovering the Chamber
Music and Songs of Peter Gellhorn 217
Norbert Meyn
12 Visits in Four Cities: Stations in the Musical and Familial Life of the
Song Composer Max Kowalski (1882–1956) 237
Nils Neubert
13 Der österreichische Musiker Ferdinand Rauter als Musiktherapeut in
Camphill bei Aberdeen in Schottland (1945 bis 1947) 259
Jutta Raab Hansen
14 Mischa Spoliansky’s Music for the Movie Mr. Emmanuel (1944) 284
Jörg Thunecke
Index 303
Figures
1.1 Map taken from the https://www.xn--sterreich-ungarn-lwb.de/demografie.html
page which goes on to breakdown the linguistic make-up of Austria-Hungary,
with German being the first language of only 23.36%, and c.45% speaking one
of several Slavic languages 16
3.1 Plakat zum Konzert des Kitchener Camp Orchestra am 2. November 1939 in der
St. Clement’s Church, Sandwich 67
3.2 Einladung zur Show ‚Hay-Fever‛ aus dem australischen Internierungslager Hay
vom November 1940 69
3.3 Handgeschriebener Programmzettel für ein Konzert mit unterhaltsamer Klassik
aus Hay 71
6.1 ‘Lectures and Recitals, Nov.–Dec. 1951’ printed leaflet, Ben Uri Art Gallery 124
7.1 The Goldschmidts’ headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Ohlsdorf 135
7.2 Berthold Goldschmidt’s birth certificate 136
7.3 The house – Steinstrasse 12 – in which Berthold Goldschmidt was born 137
7.4 Cover of the book Zündende Lieder, verbrannte Musik 142
7.5a The title page of Goldschmidt’s Third String Quartet 146
7.5b Transcription of the title page of Goldschmidt’s Third String Quartet
(by Peter Petersen) 147
7.6 Poster advertising the first showing of Draußen vor der Tür 150
9.1 Newspaper photo cutting of a 1954 recital in Bath by Franz Reizenstein and
Christopher Hassall, highlighting their lifelong professional relationship and
friendship subsequent to Voices of Night (1951) and Anna Kraus (1952) 175
11.1 Gellhorn’s Gold Medal from the Prussian Academy of the Arts for outstanding
achievements as a student 221
11.2 Portrait of the young Peter Gellhorn (year unknown) 224
11.3 Peter and Olive Gellhorn on their wedding day in 1943 229
11.4 Peter Gellhorn on a London street in 1951 230
11.5 Peter Gellhorn at St. James’s Palace, 1984 233
13.1 Engel Lund and Ferdinand Rauter 263
13.2 Rehearsal in Rauter’s home, 74 Carlton Hill, London NW8: Norbert Brainin,
violin; Ferdinand Rauter, piano; photomontage on the back wall portrait of
Hans (Peter) Schidlof, violist 283