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Catalogue, Exhibition at the Yeshiva Univ. Museum, New York Febr.–June 2004
ed. by Leon Botstein and Werner Hanak
208 p., large size, pb., 2 Audio CDs
CD 1: Mahler, Goldmark, Schreker, Korngold, Schoenberg, Zemlinsky, Grosz, Krenek, Toch, Brand, Wellesz, Gál, Weigl, Bürger et al.
CD 2: Benatzky, Fall, Streus, Eysler, Abraham, Kálmán, Spoliansky, Meisel, Weill, Steiner, Gold, Spielmann, Weiss, Leopold Hirschfeld, Kreisler, Zipper et al.
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This exhibition catalogue guides the visitor into Vienna, the city of Music. Vienna's musical culture was influenced decisively by Jewish composers, performers, and patrons. Some, such as Mahler and Schoenberg, would open the gates to modernism, while others, such as Kálmán or Oscar Straus, would fix permanently in our imagination the myth of the city of music as fairy-tale-city.
The essays collected here seek to shed light on the role of the Jewish population and the fin-de-siècle conflict between the avant-garde and the reactionaries and to show that contrary to traditional notions, Jews not always were to be found in the modernist camp. They also tell of the axis Vienna–Berlin during the interwar years and illuminate the Jewish-Austrian musical symbiosis, which in the end would turn out to have been no more than a dream: quasi una fantasia. We furthermore document the expulsion and murder of Jewish musicians between 1938 and 1945 and their work in exile. A critical look at Vienna after 1945 concludes the volume.
»... a magnificent illustrated catalogue ...« (Graham G. Norton, The Times, London)
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