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Aims and activities

During the twelve years of the Thousand-Year Reich the Nazis rewrote history by means of regulations and prohibitions. In so doing they denied the contribution of Jewish musicians to German musical life and branded performers and composers as degenerate and detrimental. They were driven out of Germany and subsequently out of Europe, or deported to concentration camps and murdered. Their work was destroyed or fell into oblivion.

Musica reanimata is an organisation devoted to the remembrance of these musicians, to the integration of their compositions in public musical life and to their well-deserved reinstatement in music history.

The aims of the organisation are:

a) the furtherance of biographical research, the safeguarding and musicological study of music sources by our own specialists and other persons and institutions appointed to that end,

b) the preparation and publication of music editions,

c) the promotion of public performance of the same. 

Musica reanimata organises ‘exploratory’ concerts (with extensive introductory clarifications) and academic sessions; it also presents a series of publications entitled Verdrängte Musik and issues the journal mr-Mitteilungen.

For further information and membership application see www.musica-reanimata.de