Vienna Farewell

Author : David Jordan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059587861X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vienna Farewell written by David Jordan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 12, 1938, the German Army marched into Austria, greeted enthusiastically by much of the population, making the country part of Nazi Germany. Overnight, 200,000 Austrian Jews were turned from citizens into hated and hunted outsiders, unprotected by law or custom. Jacob Abels is one of them; a young Jewish man in beautiful Vienna, immersed in the youthful world of friendships and new love. Suddenly, his familiar and beguiling city is a place of danger and fear. Vienna Farewell is the story of people-Gentiles and Jews, Nazis and anti-Nazis, rich and poor, young and old-lives and fates intertwined, trying in many different ways to make their personal adjustments to this new historical reality; some by attempting to escape abroad, others by resigned and hopeless waiting for the improbable return of better days, and others-Nazis and their allies-by taking brutal advantage of their newly won powers. David Jordan, drawing on his personal experiences, describes the actions and motivations of his contemporaries with the clarity of the inside observer who "knows his Viennese." Part history, part novel, Vienna Farewell shines a revealing light on a place in a time of darkness.

Author : David Jordan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595878611
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vienna Farewell written by David Jordan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 12, 1938, the German Army marched into Austria, greeted enthusiastically by much of the population, making the country part of Nazi Germany. Overnight, 200,000 Austrian Jews were turned from citizens into hated and hunted outsiders, unprotected by law or custom. Jacob Abels is one of them; a young Jewish man in beautiful Vienna, immersed in the youthful world of friendships and new love. Suddenly, his familiar and beguiling city is a place of danger and fear. Vienna Farewell is the story of people-Gentiles and Jews, Nazis and anti-Nazis, rich and poor, young and old-lives and fates intertwined, trying in many different ways to make their personal adjustments to this new historical reality; some by attempting to escape abroad, others by resigned and hopeless waiting for the improbable return of better days, and others-Nazis and their allies-by taking brutal advantage of their newly won powers. David Jordan, drawing on his personal experiences, describes the actions and motivations of his contemporaries with the clarity of the inside observer who "knows his Viennese." Part history, part novel, Vienna Farewell shines a revealing light on a place in a time of darkness.

Author : Henry-Louis de La Grange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780193151604
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907) written by Henry-Louis de La Grange and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here at last is the third volume of this magisterial work. Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer, and conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, with Mahler's energy and creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper and struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter and the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, and the composer, and he weaves in innumerable testimonies and anecdotes that throw new light on the great composer's complex personality. The product of forty years of research, here is the definitive study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip."

Author : Stephen S. Kalmar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodbye Vienna! written by Stephen S. Kalmar and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torquato Tasso. A Drama, and Other Poems written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Torquato Tasso written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Levi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030012306X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mozart and the Nazis written by Erik Levi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T̀his book fills an important gap in our understanding of the ways in which composers - Mozart in particular - are co-opted for social, cultural and political ends. And it teaches us that reception is as significant a part of cultural history as understanding music in its own time and place.'--Cliff Eisen, Professor of Music History, King's College London.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1374 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949: Case 11: U.S. v. von Weizsaecker (Ministries case) written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538172410
Total Pages : 457 pages
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Download or read book From My Life written by Tom Moore and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From My Life is the autobiography of Eduard Hanslick, one of the most noted and honored music critics in nineteenth-century Vienna who made his mark with his relatively brief disquisition On the Musically Beautiful first issued in 1854. His highly informative autobiography has never appeared in complete translation to English or any other language.

Author : Fred Rappaport
Publisher : Pubs Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780915911028
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Vienna written by Fred Rappaport and published by Pubs Assoc. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: