
MUSIC, MIGRATION & MOBILITY
The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain
Sheet Music Editions (free download):
What a Life! Music from the internment revue by Hans Gál, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1940:
This edition is almost ready, but because of a temporary suspension of the Music, Migration and Mobility Project, the completion of the edition has been delayed. A preliminary version can be made available on request. Please click here to ask for a copy.
You can watch excerpts from What a Life! on the RCM Youtube Channel:
Der Song vom Doppelbett (double bed song)
You can also buy a CD with Hans Gál's diary 'Music behind Barbed Wire'
Egon Wellesz, Drei Lieder nach Texten von Ernst Stadler Op. 24:
click here to download
Peter Gellhorn, Mooragh (Isle of Man, 1940): click here to download
Royal College of Music:
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 Centre for Performance Science
External resources and organisations:
LexM Hamburg University - Online encyclopaedia about musicians persecuted by the Nazi Regime
Forbidden Music Regained, Leo Smit Foundation Amsterdam
Festival Verfemte Musik Schwerin
online resource from the AHRC funded project 'Performing the Jewish Canon'