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Musikfest 2021: A Celebration of Black Music

In the opening concert of Musikfest 2021: A Celebration of Black Music, baritone Thomas Hampson performed together with soprano Louise Toppin three songs from the song cycle Africa Songs, op. 29 by Wilhelm Grosz. The two artists were accompanied on the piano by Howard Watkins.

Wilhelm Grosz (1894 – 1939), born in Vienna, was forced into exile in 1934 due to his Jewish origin. In the song cycle Africa Songs, which was composed in 1930, he set several poems by African-American poet Langston Hughes (1901-1967) to music. The estate of Wilhelm Grosz is located in the archive of the Exilarte Center.

Wilhelm Grosz, Africa Songs, op. 29 [15:05 – 22:18]

Wilhelm Grosz, from: Africa Songs, op. 29 [15:05 – 22:18]

Das neue Kabarettmädel [15:05]
Schnaps-Mary [17:07]
Nachtlied in Harlem [19:21]

For the complete program of this concert, please click here.

Concert – Workshop – Exilarte Award

This year’s opening concert of the International Summer Academy of the mdw is dedicated to composers who were expelled by the Nazi regime. Under the title “Exilarte – bringing back persecuted and exiled Music”, works by Erich Zeisl, Wilhelm Grosz, Hans Gál, Ruth Schönthal, Fritz Kreisler and Julius Bürger will be performed on Monday, August 16 at 8 p.m. at the Literatursalon Schloss Wartholz.

Johannes Fleischmann (violin), Josipa Bainac (soprano), Ulrike Anton (flute), David Hausknecht (piano), Sabina Hasanova (piano) and the Selini Quartet are the performers of this lost and forgotten repertoire.

Arabella Fenyves (Radio Klassik Stephansdom) and Gerold Gruber (Chairman of the Exilarte Center at the mdw) will moderate the evening.

Monday, August 16, 2021, 8 PM (CET)
Literatursalon Schloss Wartholz
Hauptstraße 113
A-2651 Reichenau an der Rax
Austria

For ticket sales and further information, please click here.

This concert will be livestreamed. The link will be posted on this website soon.

Exile Music Workshop with Prof. Dr. Gerold Gruber und Dr. Ulrike Anton

In this two-part workshop, Gerold Gruber and Ulrike Anton introduce the participants of the International Summer Academy to the subject of exile music and will work with individual soloists and ensembles on this particular repertoire.

August 19 & 20, 2021
Literatursalon Schloss Wartholz
Hauptstraße 113
A-2651 Reichenau an der Rax, Austria

For further information about the workshop please click here.

Exilarte Award at the ISA International Music Competition, August 25, 2021

For the first time the Exilarte Center will present the Exilarte Award, offering a sum of € 1000 at the International ISA Music Competition. The prize is awarded for an outstanding interpretation of a work by a composer who was forced into exile, suppressed or murdered by the Nazi regime. The Exilarte Award will be presented by Prof. Dr. Gerold Gruber at Schloss Reichenau during the prize winners’ concert on August 28, 2021.

For further information about the Exilarte Award please click here.

The Intellectual Capital Report of the mdw is a summary of intangible assets and performance processes at the university.

The Exilarte Center was able to make a significant contribution with the following concerts and scientific projects:

Concert Highlight 2020 | January 23, 2020
Exilarte concert series „Echo of the Unheard“ , ORF Radiokulturhaus Vienna, Austria
World famous pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, soprano Sara Hershkowitz and flutist Ulrike Anton performed works by Philip Herschkowitz, Alban Berg, Edison Denisov and Elena Firsova.

Commemorative event organized by the Austrian Parliament in cooperation with Exilarte | January 27, 2020
75 years after the liberation of the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau
Students and young graduates of the mdw performed works by Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása, Gideon Klein and Pavel Haas
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Gerold Gruber on composers murdered in Auschwitz

New Exhibition of the Exilarte Center | since October 20, 2020
My Song For You – Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura Between Two Worlds
Exhibition opening in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Projects in preparation

Exilarte Music Editions
Cooperation with Boosey & Hawkes

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Edition of his correspondence, a project in agreement with the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collected Edition of His Works of the Academies of Sciences and Literature, Mainz and Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

New estates at the archive of the Exilarte Center
Erich Sanders, Walter Würzburger, Georg Tintner, Robert Freistadtl

As of Wednesday, May 19, 2021, you can visit the new exhibition “My Song For You – Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura Between Two Worlds”  during our regular opening hours without pre-registration.

Free admission!

For guided tours in English, please contact us:
info@exilarte.org
Tel.: +43 1 711 55 – 3510

Covid-19 Security Concept
FFP2-mask requirement for the entire building
Inside the exhibition room: max. 6 people
Social distancing of 2m must be respected
Covid-19 test NOT required
Hand sanitizer dispensers available
Audio Terminals:
Listen through our QR codes on your smartphone; alternatively: disposable protection for our headphones is available

Dr. Ulrike Anton virtually guides you through the new exhibition of the exil.arte Center “My Song For You – Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura Between Two Worlds” and presents the most important highlights within 8 minutes.

WE ARE OPEN AGAIN STARTING MAY 19, 2021

Students and young graduates of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna interpret works by Julius Bürger, Hans Gál, Wilhelm Grosz, André Singer and Hans Winterberg.

This CD gives a musical overview of the estates that have been handed over to the archive of the Exilarte Center in recent years or that are closely related to the research projects of the center.

For further information please contact: info@exilarte.org