Schumann Orchestral Music (BBC music guides) [Paperback] [Aug 01, 1980] Gal, Hans

Schumann Orchestral Music

Arts & Photography

Gál, Hans

Music

Olympic Marketing Corp

Richard Wagner

Gollancz

Johannes Brahms: His Work and Personality

Severn House Publishers

<p>Combines biographical and critical studies of Wagner and his music, examining his personal merits and defects and assessing his artistry and achievement</p>

Richard Wagner (English and German Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

UNKNO

The Austrian composer Hans Gál (1890-1987) was one of many Jewish refugees who fled to Britain from Hitler's Third Reich only to find themselves interned in prison camps in Britain as 'enemy aliens' - the result of Churchill's panic decision to 'collar the lot'. Gál thus spent five months over the summer of 1940 in internment camps - first in Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh, then at Huyton, near Liverpool, and finally in the Central Promenade Camp on the Isle of Man. Many of Gál's fellow internees went on, like Gál himself, to become shaping forces in the intellectual life of Britain - but in captivity this colourful parade of characters had to put up with bureaucratic inertia and the indifference of their captors to their undeserved fate. The diary Gál kept during his captivity vividly describes the difficulties the internees had to overcome to live as normal a life as possible. Gál's contribution, of course, was music, and the CD with this book presents first recordings of the Huyton Suite he wrote for two violins and flute (the only instruments available to him), the satirical review What a Life! composed on the Isle of Man and the piano suite he drew from it. Introductory chapters by Gál's daughter and by Richard Dove present a biographical survey of Gál's life and career and an examination of British internment policy; the Foreword is by the distinguished economist Sir Alan Peacock, who studied composition with Gál. Together they throw light on one of the more shameful British responses to the threat of Nazi invasion.

Music behind Barbed Wire: A Diary of Summer 1940

Humor & Entertainment

BOYE6

Giuseppe Verdi und die Oper (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag

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