Robert Kahn, Tagebuch in Tönen (1935-49), No. 53
Maksim Štšura, piano No. 53 in E major – Allegretto con moto The 'Tagebuch in Tönen' (Diary in Music) is a cycle of 1168 piano pieces written 1935-1949, largely during Kahn's exile in Britain since 1939. Recorded at the Royal College of Music Studios part of the performance and research project SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND, curated by Norbert Meyn htpp://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong Please visit the online resource on the website of the Royal College of Music for more information about Robert Kahn (1865-1951): http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/featuredmusicians/robertkahn/ When Germany became “Hitlerdeutschland” in 1933, Robert Kahn had already had a long and rich career as a composer, chamber musician and music professor in Berlin. Since his first contact with Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, when Kahn was about 20 years old, he was constantly active and well esteemed in the public musical life of his time. This beautiful musical life ended in 1933. Because of his Jewish roots Kahn lost all his public life as a musician and composer in a short time. Despite the support of famous colleagues in Germany he had to emigrate in 1938, at the age of 73. Together with his wife he settled in Biddenden, Kent, where he died in 1951. During the 12 years of his British exile he regularly played Bach and completed one of the largest and richest compositions ever written - the “Tagebuch in Tönen” (Diary in Music), comprising of nearly 1200 pieces. Apart from a little excerpt of 29 Pieces this enormous composition only exists in manuscript at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. The ’Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ project at the Royal College of Music has been working with German musicologist Dr. Steffen Fahl to explore this incomparable example of musical survival in the darkest times of the 20th century. Dr. Fahl has so far made a preliminary catalogue of the collection and created more than 200 digital scores, which have been made audible through his project klassik-resampled. http://www.klassik-resampled.de/index.php/en/home-mainmenu-1/k/kahn-robert/253-musical-diary-1935-1949
Maksim Štšura, piano No. 53 in E major – Allegretto con moto The 'Tagebuch in Tönen' (Diary in Music) is a cycle of 1168 piano pieces written 1935-1949, largely during Kahn's exile in Britain since 1939. Recorded at the Royal College of Music Studios part of the performance and research project SINGING A SONG IN A FOREIGN LAND, curated by Norbert Meyn htpp://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong Please visit the online resource on the website of the Royal College of Music for more information about Robert Kahn (1865-1951): http://www.rcm.ac.uk/singingasong/featuredmusicians/robertkahn/ When Germany became “Hitlerdeutschland” in 1933, Robert Kahn had already had a long and rich career as a composer, chamber musician and music professor in Berlin. Since his first contact with Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim, when Kahn was about 20 years old, he was constantly active and well esteemed in the public musical life of his time. This beautiful musical life ended in 1933. Because of his Jewish roots Kahn lost all his public life as a musician and composer in a short time. Despite the support of famous colleagues in Germany he had to emigrate in 1938, at the age of 73. Together with his wife he settled in Biddenden, Kent, where he died in 1951. During the 12 years of his British exile he regularly played Bach and completed one of the largest and richest compositions ever written - the “Tagebuch in Tönen” (Diary in Music), comprising of nearly 1200 pieces. Apart from a little excerpt of 29 Pieces this enormous composition only exists in manuscript at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. The ’Singing a Song in a Foreign Land’ project at the Royal College of Music has been working with German musicologist Dr. Steffen Fahl to explore this incomparable example of musical survival in the darkest times of the 20th century. Dr. Fahl has so far made a preliminary catalogue of the collection and created more than 200 digital scores, which have been made audible through his project klassik-resampled. http://www.klassik-resampled.de/index.php/en/home-mainmenu-1/k/kahn-robert/253-musical-diary-1935-1949