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Wise Music’s G Schirmer announces partnership with Vienna’s Exilarte Center
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 31 October 2022
US-based classical music publisher G Schirmer Inc – which is part of the Wise Music Group – last week announced a partnership with the Vienna-based Exilarte Center, which is an organisation focused on the “restoration, preservation and publication” of music banned by the Nazis before and during World War II, most of it written by Jewish composers.
Originally founded in 2006, Exilarte was able to extend its work in 2016 when it became a fully accredited research centre based on the campus of the University Of Music And Performing Arts in Vienna. Through the new partnership, Exilarte and G Schirmer will make available more than 400 previously unpublished compositions, including songs, film scores, chamber music and orchestral works.
Wise Music Group’s foundation will also provide financial support to allow Exilarte to further restore, preserve and publish works by composers who were banned in the 1930s and 1940s.
Confirming the partnership, Robert Thompson, President of G Schirmer and Wise Music, said: “Exilarte has been a beacon of light since 2006 as the leading institution in locating, restoring, and making available musical works by composers lost during the Holocaust”.
“Their work is vital, precious and honourable, ensuring that these composers who were silenced during World War II are not forgotten”, he added, “their legacies restored, and their musical works brought to the public for the first time in performances and recordings”.
“Through our partnership with Exilarte”, he explained, “our goal is to continue and expand upon their mission of restoring, preserving, and disseminating the work of composers whose lives, work and artistry were tragically cut short”.
The founder and Chair of the Exilarte Center, Dr Gerold Gruber, added: “The Nazis wanted a world in which the music of Jewish composers would have been banned and forgotten. It is therefore our obligation to counteract these policies by rescuing the music of exiled composers from oblivion. The cooperation between Exilarte and Schirmer/Wise is of incredible value for future generations”.
