Lily Hirsch

Anneliese Landau's Life in Music (eBook, ePUB)

Nazi Germany to Émigré California

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed and moving account of the life of Anneliese Landau, who, in Nazi Germany and later in émigré California, fought against prejudice to do notable work in music.

This book introduces readers to a woman who truly persisted. Anneliese Landau pushed past bias to earn a PhD in musicology in 1930. She then lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau worked for a time in the Berlin Jewish Culture League (Jüdischer Kulturbund), a closed cultural organization created by and for Jews in negotiation with Hitler's regime. But, in 1939, she would emigrate alone, the fate of her family members tied separately to the Kindertransport and to the Terezín concentration camp.

Landau eventually settled in Los Angeles, assuming duties as music director of the Jewish Centers Association in 1944. In this role, she knew and worked with many significant historical figures, among them the composer Arnold Schoenberg, conductor Bruno Walter, and the renowned rabbi andphilosopher Leo Baeck.

Anneliese Landau's Life in Music offers fresh perspective on the Nazi period in Germany as well as on music in southern California, impacted as it was by the many notable émigrés from German-speaking lands who settled in the area. But the book, the first to study Landau's life in full, is also a unique story of survival: an account of one woman's confrontation with other people's expectations of her, as a woman anda Jew.

Lily E. Hirsch is the author of A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787446359
• Artikelnr.: 58028961

Autorenporträt

Lily E. Hirsch

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Black Thread PART 1 Standing Up Loss and Gain Her Belin On the
Air PART 2 An End and a Beginning The Jewish Culture League Jewish Music in
Nazi Germany Kristallnacht Kindertransport PART 3 Leaving Again Judaism in
Music Revisited Forbidden Music The Pull West PART 4 The Jewish Community
Center International Composers Making Music After War A Cold War in the Sun
Spotlighting Composers Back to Europe PART 5 Going Place Valley of the
Dismissed? At Her Desk In Memoriam Conclusion: "I Was There" Bibliography
Index