| Other author/creator | Botstein, Leon, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Hanak, Werner, 1969- editor. |
| Other author/creator | Albrecht-Weinberger, Karl, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien. |
| Other author/creator | Center for Jewish History. |
| Other author/creator | Yeshiva University Museum. |
| Portion of title |
Jews and the city of music, 1870-1938 |
| Contents |
"I am lost to the world": prerequisites for a music exhibition / Karl Albrecht-Weinberger -- Foreword / Sylvia Axelrod Herskowitz -- Introduction. Tragedy and irony of success: Locating Jews in the musical life of Vienna / Leon Botstein -- Vienna: Jews and the city of music: the dramaturgy of an exhibition / Werner Hanak -- Social history and the politics of the aesthetic: Jews and music in Vienna 1870-1938 / Botstein -- Jewish families, composers, and musicians in Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century / Otto Biba -- Jewish liturgical music in Vienna: a mirror of cultural diversity / Tina Frühauf -- An endgame's "dramatis personae": Jewish popular music in the public spaces of the Habsburg monarchy / Philip P. Bohlman -- "Ein singendes, klingendes Märchen": the glorification of Vienna in works by Jewish composers and librettists of opera / Sara Trampuz, Wolfgang Dosch -- "Gruss mir mein Wien": Charles Kalman in conversation / Trampuz, Dosch -- Women and the musical aesthetics of the bourgeoisie / Elisabeth Derow-Turnauer -- Erica Morini: a tentative approach / Elena Ostleitner -- Vienna's musical life between the wars / Hartmut Krones -- Between modernism and entertainment: the musical axis Vienna [to] Berlin / Albrecht Dümling -- Cultivating perception: the Orpheus Trust, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching, documenting, and promoting the awareness of persecuted and exiled music and musicians / Primavera Gruber -- Leonard Bernstein in Vienna / Michael P. Steinberg -- Quasi una fantasia: the CDs / Michael Haas. |
| Contents |
CD 1. Between classicism and modernism -- CD 2. Popular positions. |
| Abstract |
Vienna's musical culture was influenced decisively by Jewish composers, performers, and patrons. Some, such as Mahler and Schoenberg, would open the gates to modernism, while others, such as Kalman or Oscar Straus, would fix permanently in our imagination the myth of the city of music as fairy-tale city. This exhibition catalogue guides the visitor into Vienna, the city of music. The essays collected here seek to shed light on the role of the Jewish populations and the fin-de-siècle conflict between the avant-garde and the reactionaries and to show that contrary to traditional notions, Jews not always were to be found in the modernist camp. They also tell of the axis Vienna--Berlin during the interwar years and illuminate the Jewish-Austrian musical symbiosis, which in the end would turn out to have been no more than a dream: quasi una fantasia. [The editors] furthermore document the expulsion and murder of Jewish musicians between 1938 and 1945 and their work in exile. A critical look at Vienna after 1945 concludes the volume. |
| Local note | JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: Music CD-7792. |
| General note | An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Vienna in cooperation with the Yeshiva University Museum. Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History, New York, 8 February-30 June 2004 on view at the Jewish Museum Vienna from 14 May-26 October 2003. |
| General note | Translation of: Quasi una fantasia : Juden und die Musikstadt Wien. Hofheim : Wolke, 2003. |
| General note | Table of contents of CDs on cover flaps. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193) and index. |
| ISBN | 1931493278 |
| ISBN | 3936000123 (Europe ; pbk.) |
