Music of Exile - The Untold Story of the Composers Who Fled Hitler

Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of the composers who fled the Nazis, escaping Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. Haas traces the distinctive contribution these composers made to the twentieth-century soundscape?and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.

About the author

Michael Haas is senior researcher, cofounder, and chair of the Exilarte Centre in Vienna, where he studies and archives music suppressed by National Socialism. He is the author of Forbidden Music and was formerly music curator at Vienna's Jewish Museum.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Haas
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9780300266504
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26650-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, MUSIC / Religious / Jewish, The Holocaust, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Theory of music and musicology, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust