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Hans Keller and Internment - The Development of an Emigre Musician (Hardcover, New)
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Hans Keller and Internment - The Development of an Emigre Musician (Hardcover, New)
Series: Hans Keller Archive
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The story of influentiual music critic, Hans Keller's months in
British internment camps in 1940 and its effect on his intellectual
development. After World War II, the musical life of Britain was
transformed by the Hitler emigres. None was more influential than
the writer and broadcaster Hans Keller who arrived in London from
Vienna in 1938. Although his thought was grounded in the work of
Kant and Freud, he devoted himself to music after hearing Benjamin
Britten's Peter Grimes. His remarkable development was accelerated
during the nine months he spent in British internment camps, where
from 1940 onwards the deracinated flower of European culture was
confined . This book sets the story of Keller's internment in the
context of what is still a too-little remembered part of British
wartime history and traces its remarkable effects in the decade
following his release as he gradually found his niche in London
life. It includes several important texts, including that of his
famous broadcast on the Kristallnacht, 'Vienna 1938', a selection
of poignant letters from his two camps (in translation) and ends
with a spirited memoir by Donald Mitchell of 'Hans Keller in the
Early Years'. It is a remarkable and elegant contribution to our
understanding both of Keller's development and of Britain in the
1940s.
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