The impact of Nazism on twentieth-century music was immense as evidenced by this volume featuring seventeen essays by a group of internationally recognised scholars. The range of enquiry is extraordinarily wide, covering the issue of Inner Emigration during the Third Reich and remigration in the Netherlands after the Second World War, as well as the work of exiled composers such as Korngold, Weill, Weigl, Ullmann, Eisler, Achron, Goldschmidt and Gál. In addition, there are penetrating discussions of the employment of Handel's music in the Jewish Cultural League, Nazi musical censorship in occupied Poland and the fate of émigré musicians and musicologists in wartime Britain. Three chapters detail the musical relationship between Franco's Spain and the Third Reich.

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Erik Levi is Reader in Music and Director of Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Erik Levi Introduction Albrecht Dümling What is Internal Exile in Music? The cases of Walter Braunfels, Heinz Tiessen, Eduard Erdmann and Philipp Jarnach Lily E. Hirsch Defining 'Jewish Music' in Nazi Germany. Handel and the Berlin Jewish Culture League Joshua S. Walden 'Olden Melodies Return'. Memory in Joseph Achron's Hebrew Melody Ben Winters Swearing an Oath. Korngold, Film and the Sound of Resistance? Magnar Breivik From Surabaya to Ellis Island. On two versions of Kurt Weill's 'Surabaya-Johnny' James Parsons Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch and 'the new stuff of life' Juliane Brand Karl Weigl's Final Years, 1938-1949. A Story of Perseverance Kristof Boucquet The transformation of Viktor Ullmann's compositional language Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek Nazi censorship in Music, Warsaw 1941 Erik Levi and Melina Gehring Paul Hirsch and Alfred Einstein. The trials and tribulations of artistic collaboration in exile Suzanne Snizek The Abyss and the Berries Malcolm Miller Music as Memory. Émigré composers in Britain and their wartime experiences Florian Scheding 'Problematic Tendencies'. Émigré Composers in London, 1933-1945 Francisco Parralejo Masa Nazism, Anti-Semitism in the Second Republic Spain (1931-1936) Gemma Pérez Zalduondo The Musical Policies of the Third Reich in relation to the First years of Francoism (1938-1943) Eva Moreda-Rodríguez Hispanic-German Music Festivals during the Second World War Emile Wennekes 'Some of the Jewish musicians are back at their desks'. A case study in the remigration of European musicians after World War II The Contributors Index