A Jewish Quality in the Music of Vienna

Presented by Saul Lilienstein
Music Historian, Smithsonian Affiliates in D.C., Johns Hopkins University, Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center

Vienna was a linguistic crossroads for Czech, German, Hungarian, and Yiddish languages.  By the end of the 19th century and into the 20th it had become the most prominent center of Jewish culture in Europe.

Vienna,  the city of music, was surely not ‘tone-deaf’ to the sounds of these cultures. In this music-filled presentation, Saul Lilienstein will focus on a Jewish awareness that can be recognized in some of the great music we think of today as distinctly Viennese.

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Rebecca Leavey
info@habermaninstitute.org