The Power of Music
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: A Chronology in Sounds
Osteuropa 7/2010
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2010 [= Osteuropa 7/2010]
208 pages, 1 Musik-CD, 60 figures
Price: 22,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1710-8
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- Editorial
Music from the Deep End - David Fanning
“But What Counts Is the Music”
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Life and Work - Jascha Nemtsov
Distinctive, Jewish, Unrecognised
Reasons for M. Weinberg’s “Non-Reception” - Wolfgang Mende
Cycles of a Myth
Weinberg and the Great Patriotic War - Stefan Weiss
What Did the West Know?
The Repression of Composers in the Soviet Union - Reinhard Flender
The Story of a Friendship
Dmitrii Shostakovich and Mieczysław Weinberg - Friedrich Geiger
Ideology and Autonomy
Mieczysław Weinberg’s String Quartets - Inessa Dvužil’naja
Freylekhs – Festive and Tragic
Jewish Themes in Prokof’ev, Shostakovich, and Weinberg - Verena Mogl
Music in Motion
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Compositions for Film - Dorota Szwarcman
Caught in the Middle
Why Mieczysław Weinberg Is Unknown in Poland - Zofia Posmysz
The Passenger
On Auschwitz, Her Book, and Weinberg’s Opera - Dmitrij Šostakovič on "The Passenger"
Preface to the Piano Reduction
Documentation - Michał Bristiger
Remembering Auschwitz
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Opera “The Passenger” - Antonina Klokova
“My Moral Duty”
Mieczysław Weinberg and the Holocaust