Music Behind Barbed Wire: A Diary of Summer 1940

by Hans Gál

The internment diary of Austrian composer Hans G?l (1890-1987) with a biographical study of his life and career. Includes a CD of first recordings of three of his works from the period.

The Austrian composer Hans G?l (1890-1987) was one of many Jewish refugees who fled to Britain from Hitler's Third Reich only to find themselves interned in prison camps in Britain as 'enemy aliens' - the result of Churchill's panic decision to 'collar the lot'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907689752
• ISBN13: 9780907689751
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Toccata Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"