The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth-Century Music / / Erik Levi.

• HerausgeberIn: Levi, Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: Köln : : Böhlau Verlag, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: German
• Series: exil.arte-Schriften
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The impact of Nazism on twentieth-century music was immense as evidenced by this volume featuring seventeen essays by a group of internationally recognised scholars. The range of enquiry is extraordinarily wide, covering the issue of “Inner Emigration” during the Third Reich and remigration in the Netherlands after the Second World War, as well as the work of exiled composers such as Korngold, Weill, Weigl, Ullmann, Eisler, Achron, Goldschmidt and Gál. In addition, there are penetrating discussions of the employment of Handel’s music in the Jewish Cultural League, Nazi musical censorship in occupied Poland and the fate of émigré musicians and musicologists in wartime Britain. Three chapters detail the musical relationship between Franco’s Spain and the Third Reich.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Introduction -- What is Internal Exile in Music? The Cases of Walter Braunfels, Heinz Tiessen, Eduard Erdmann and Philipp Jarnach -- Defining ‘Jewish Music’ in Nazi Germany Handel and the Berlin Jewish Culture League -- ‘Olden Melodies Return’ Memory in Joseph Achron’s Hebrew Melody -- Swearing an Oath Korngold, Film, and the Sound of Resistance? -- From Surabaya to Ellis Island On two versions of Kurt Weill’s ‘Surabaya-Johnny -- Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch and ‘the new stuff of life’ -- Karl Weigl’s Final Years, 1938–1949 A Story of Perseverance -- The Transformation of Viktor Ullmann’s Compositional Language -- Nazi Censorship in Music, Warsaw 1941 -- Paul Hirsch and Alfred Einstein The trials and tribulations of collaboration in exile -- The Abyss and the Berries -- Music as Memory Émigré Composers in Britain and their Wartime Experiences -- ‘Problematic Tendencies’ Émigré Composers in London, 1933–1945 -- Nazism, Anti-Semitism and Music in the Second Republic Spain (1931–1936) -- The musical policies of the Third Reich in relation to the first years of Francoism (1938–1943) -- Hispanic-German Music Festivals during the Second World War -- ‘Some of the Jewish musicians are back at their desks’ A case study in the remigration of European musicians after World War II -- The Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter