Schoenberg Arnold - Arnold Schoenbergs A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe

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Many institutions and individuals made it possible for me to research and write this book, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge their support. A Howard Fellowship from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation and two Research Scholar Grants from Vanderbilt University funded extensive archival research in Europe over the course of three summers. A Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies enabled me to spend academic year 200910 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where I was challenged and inspired by a cohort of extraordinarily intelligent colleagues. At Vanderbilt I am fortunate to work with two generous deans, Carolyn Dever of the College of Arts and Science and Mark Wait of the Blair School of Music, who have supported this project in ways both great and small.

I benefited from the assistance and expertise of a great many archivists. I must thank Therese Muxeneder and Eike Fess of the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna; Werner Grnzweig, Anouk Jeschke, and Daniela Reinhold of the Musikarchiv, Akademie der Knste, Berlin; Jrg-Uwe Fischer of the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv; Ulf Rathje of the Bundesarchiv, Berlin-Lichterfelde; Ulrich Geyer of the Politisches Archiv des Auswrtigen Amts Berlin; Rdiger Koch of the MDR Rundfunkchor, Archiv; Steffen Held of the Ephraim Carlebach Stiftung Leipzig; Roswitha Meister and Alexander Hartmann of the Bundesbeauftragte fr die Stasi-Unterlagen; Mieczysaw Kominek, Izabela Zymer, and Beata Dzwigaj of the Polish Music Information Center, which houses the Archiwum Zwizku Kompozytorw Polskich; Joanna Mitko and Jacek Konecki of the Archiwum Akt Polskiego Radia S.A.; Jolanta Szopa of the Archiwum Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego; Andrzej Budzyski and Edyta Pawowska of the Orodek Dokumentacji i Zbiorw Programowych Telewizja Polska; Sidsel Levin of the Jdisk Museum i Oslo; yvind Norheim of the Nasjonalbiblioteket Norsk musikksamling; Rolf Jonsson of the Norkpings stadsarkiv; Christine Sundby of the Riksarkivet, Sweden; Thomas Bab and Brigitta Bredskog of the Judiska Frsamlingen i Stockholm; Anders Hammarlund of the Svensk visarkiv; Jan Kahuda of the Nrodn archiv; Zuzana Petrkov of the Hudebn oddlen Nrodn knihovny esk republiky; Bohumil Sldeek of the Archiv Praskho filharmonickho; Helena Bartkov of Supraphon; Zdenk Jebek of the odbor Archivnch a programovch fond esk rozhlasu; and James Keller of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Archival research can be an adventure, and navigating the archives in Norway, Poland, and the Czech Republic would have been impossible without the help of some extraordinary research assistants. Audun Jonassen did exemplary work in Oslo, where I also had the great good fortune of meeting Astrid Kvalbein, who generously shared her knowledge of and enthusiasm for Pauline Hall and tracked down the photograph of Hall that appears in chapter 3. I will be forever grateful that, when I told Tereza Havelkov at Charles University in Prague I was looking to hire an assistant there, she put me in touch with Kateina Nov. Kateina and I worked together in Prague on two separate research trips, after which she continued to track down leads, conduct correspondence, and proofread Czech without ever losing her trademark sense of humor. Lisa Jakelski was still a graduate student when I hired her to work with me in Warsaw, and her expertise on the ground was invaluable. Since then she has patiently answered countless questions and shared insights gained from her own work. I am enormously grateful for her generosity and her friendship.