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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Jewish composers"”.
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Hitler’s musical 'Tabula Rasa' - Restitution - Restoration
… Musik” and the book FORBIDDEN MUSIC – THE JEWISH COMPOSERS BANNED BY THE NAZIS (henceforth: Forbidden Music). Adjacent and central as a means of research was a period of eight years spent as Music Curator at Vienna’s Jewish Museum from 2002–10. This essay begins with an introduction in …
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Peter Jona Korn: An Introduction to His Works for the Oboe
… life bore similarities to many other German-Jewish composers of the twentieth century, as he, like Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, and Kurt Weill, was forced to flee Germany to escape Nazi persecution. However, unlike composers who turned away from tonality, searching for other modes of …
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A performer's guide to the songs for soprano by the Austro-American composer Eric Zeisl (1905-1959)
This written document presents an introduction to the soprano songs by the Austro-American composer Eric Zeisl. Songs chosen comprise published songs (Der Schäfer, Die Fünf Hühnerchen, Vergiss Mein Nicht, Vor Meinem Fenster) as well as unpublished songs (Der Briefmark, Der Tag Erwacht, Immer …
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
… between the composer’s creative process and his Jewish heritage and humanist philosophy. Commissioned for Harvard University’s Symposium on Music Criticism, this setting of Genesis 1–2:7 was Copland’s reluctant response to Harvard’s request for an a cappella choral work on a text drawn from …