Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Music and Exile
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 192-216
Schlagwort(e):
Granichstaedten, Bruno,
;
Katscher, Robert,
;
Jewish composers Biography
;
Jewish refugees Biography
;
Vienna (Austria)
Kurzfassung:
Bruno Granichstaedten (1879–1944) and Robert Katscher (1894–1942) were two Vienna- born operetta composers who fled from National Socialism in 1938. Both died in exile before the end of the Second World War, Katscher in 1942 in Hollywood, and Granichstaedten in 1944 in New York. Internationally successful, they had gained a reputation in the USA before they became refugees. Similar to many other artists, however, life in exile derailed their previously impressive careers. I discuss here how the US press reported on both composers before and after their flights from Nazi- occupied Europe. This article also sheds light on their activities in the USA, for example on the adaptation of Katscher’s German-language stage hit Bei Kerzenlicht (By Candlelight, subtitled 12 Chansons around a small comedy in three acts, text: Karl Farkas) for Broadway in 1938 as the musical You Never Know, with new contributions by Cole Porter. Granichstaedten, in turn, remained active until his death and devised new works, including operettas and screenplays, although most of his compositions in exile did not make it to stage or screen.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004544109_012
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