Ursula Mamlok
There are still a small number of composers who were born to Jewish families in Germany and Austria in the 1920s, who escaped and came to musical maturity in new homelands. Walter Arlen… Continue reading
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‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel’ – Samuel Johnson
In survey after survey, Austria follows the UK as the most euro-sceptic of all EU members, yet here in Vienna, the euro-elections have a dynamism that is unimaginable in Britain: there are television… Continue reading
Review of ‘Forbidden Music’ in the Times Literary Supplement
Sadly, for copyright reasons, I can’t upload the TLS review of ‘Forbidden Music’ to Facebook. But I can report that in an article entitled ‘By Authors Unknown’, Stephen Brown reviews three books along… Continue reading
Walter Wurzburger
I’ve added another poster for a second centenary concert for Walter Wurzburger – the first concert poster can be seen below. A fascinating forgotten voice celebrates a centenary: Walter Wurzburger – or, as he must… Continue reading
Austria’s War
Regular readers of this page will know that I’ve already written on the unique, but largely ignored position of Austria in the First World War. It has been fascinating to follow reports and… Continue reading
Jews in the ‘Modern State’ of 1875
In August 1875, someone with the initials C.v.W. wrote a leading article in Vienna’s ‘Neue Freie Presse’ entitled ‘Jewry in the Modern State’. This came eight years after the December Constitution of Austria… Continue reading
Eric(h) Zeisl (1905-1959): The One Who (Nearly) Got Away
My article on Eric Zeisl from 2014 updated with its formerly corrupted audio files replaced.
The death of Alice Herz-Sommer
Those of us who walked through the streets of London’s Belsize Park/Swiss Cottage neighbourhood could hear her playing every day. She was an institution and her long life meant that she kept memories… Continue reading
The Ethical High Ground?
At the bottom of this post, is a link to a thought-provoking review of Forbidden Music written by professor of musicology at Oxford University’s St. Catherine’s College, Peter Franklin. He appreciates many things… Continue reading
Heinrich Schenker’s Diaries and Letters – a reference
And my third link of the week is this useful (for German readers) reference to Schenker’s diaries and correspondence. If you put in a name, references are instantly brought up – Fascinating and… Continue reading