A three-year project led by the Royal College of Music (RCM) will explore and celebrate the UK work of migrant composers, including many Jewish musicians who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s.
“Music, Migration and Mobility” — recently awarded £900,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council — will feature workshops, performances and recordings that highlight the trans-national nature of the composers and their work.
Jewish composers featuring in the project will include Hans Gál, Egon Wellesz, Franz Reizenstein, Matyas Seiber, Roberto Gerard, Bertold Goldschmidt and Robert Kahn, as well as many violinists, conductors, singers and teachers who fled the Nazis.
Prof Nils Grosch at Salzburg University will gather information in archives in the UK, Germany and Austria to re-trace their lives and work, and a team of human geographers led by Prof Peter Adey at Royal Holloway, University of London, will create maps to visualise their journeys and networks.
