Artur Schnabel, an exiled Austro-German musician and composer, was a giant of his day, but in Germany today, he is practically forgotten. Artur Schnabel admirer Markus Pawlik (together with baritone Dietrich Henschel and the Szymanowski String Quartet) presents a video commemoration concert of Schnabel's best works in Berlin. Pawlik examines the places, landscapes, and history that shaped Schnabel's life and music. In the exhibition "Artur Schnabel: No Place of Exile," a vital artist who was uprooted by the calamity of World Wars II and III and the Holocaust, and inspired by the possibilities of modernism, is discovered and rediscovers.
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Artur Schnabel, an exiled Austro-German musician and composer, was a giant of his day, but in Germany today, he is practically forgotten. Artur Schnabel admirer Markus Pawlik (together with baritone Dietrich Henschel and the Szymanowski String Quartet) presents a video commemoration concert of Schnabel's best works in Berlin. Pawlik examines the places, landscapes, and history that shaped Schnabel's life and music. In the exhibition "Artur Schnabel: No Place of Exile," a vital artist who was uprooted by the calamity of World Wars II and III and the Holocaust, and inspired by the possibilities of modernism, is discovered and rediscovers.
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