What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their
true music no longer has an audience? Â In the 1930s,
composers and musicians began to flee Hitler’s Germany to make
new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex:
although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had
lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia
as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less
fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile—composing under a
ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos.
 Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of this
musical diaspora. Torn between cultures and traditions, these
composers produced music that synthesized old and new worlds, some
becoming core portions of today’s repertoire, some relegated to
the desk drawer. Encompassing the musicians interned as enemy
aliens in the United Kingdom, the brilliant Hollywood compositions
of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the Brecht-inspired theater music
of Kurt Weill, Haas shows how these musicians shaped the
twentieth-century soundscape—and offers a moving record of the
incalculable effects of war on culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Michael Haas
|
| Dimensions: |
241 x 160 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
600 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-26650-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-300-26650-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780300266504 |
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