Munich Academy opens research centre for music of Jews
mainThe Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (HMTM) is opening a research centre into Jewish culture and music at the end of the month.
The centre, in a building that was once Nazi Party headquarters, will be named after the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim, who left Munich as an exile for Palestine in 1933, changing his name from Frankenburger.
So far, there is one musicologist at work, Tobias Reichard.
It is a University, not an Academy.
It’s a Hochschule dear, not a University
The building was actually named the Führerbau, the Füher’s building. For some, it is still a blight upon the cityscape.
When I was working with Leopold Stokowski as Associate Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, I received my first invitation to conduct in Israel. Stokowski asked me to take personally his letter to Paul Ben-Haim asking him for a new work to premiere in NY at Carnegie with the ECO. Ben-Haim came to my lecture on Charles Ives’ music, and we had dinner afterwards. He was thrilled with the invitation and request from Stokowski,
and miraculously handed me a freshly minted score before I departed two weeks later. Stokowski premiered it during the same season.
Thanks for sharing this “page of history” Jose!!
This looks like a job for Tina Fruehauf
Nice. Will they import and support actual Jewish musicians?
Isn’t this the building where the 1938 Munich Agreement was signed?