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MUSIC, MIGRATION & MOBILITY

The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain 

Resources 

Repertoire Guides
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These repertoire guides have been curated by our project team as a way of promoting repertoire by emigre composers. Assorted by ensemble, each document lists a range of composers, a short biography and repertoire. 
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Free to download
 

Royal College of Music

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Hans Gál: What A Life! - Notes and Manuscript

 

Singing a Song in a Foreign Land - online resource with oral history interviews, biographies and performance footage

 

Peter Gellhorn Project - AHRC funded exploration of Peter Gellhorn’s musical legacy

 

RCM Research Department

 

RCM Centre for Performance Science

 

RCM Museum of Music

 

 

External resources and organisations


Musik und Migration Salzburg 
 

LexM Hamburg University - Online encyclopaedia about musicians persecuted by the Nazi Regime

 

Exil Arte Vienna

 

Musica Reanimata Berlin

 

Forbidden Music Regained, Leo Smit Foundation Amsterdam

 

Festival Verfemte Musik Schwerin

 

Jewish Music and Theatre

online resource from the AHRC funded project 'Performing the Jewish Canon'

 

Insiders Outsiders Festival

 

Orel Foundation

 

Forum Voix étouffées

 

Holocaust Music (ORT)

 

International Centre for Suppressed Music

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 Solo Piano
Vocal & Piano
Mixed Choir 
(A Capella)
Unaccompanied String Instrument
Women & Mens Choir (A Capella)
Choir,
Orchestra/Ensemble
Other Large Instrumental Ensembles
Ensemble with solo voice(s)
Unaccompanied Wind/Brass Instrument
Choir, Piano & Organ
Chamber Ensemble with Piano(s)
Solo voice(s) and orchestra
Solo voice(s) a capella
Violin and Piano
String Quartets
Symphony
Orchestra
Concertos
Small Mixed
Ensembles
Ballet
Opera
Other String Ensembles
Small Wind Ensembles
String Orchestra
Other String Instrument and Piano
Wind/Brass Instrument and Piano
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