Musical Émigrés from Nazi Europe – a talk

Malcolm Miller, musicologist and pianist, is Hon. Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at the Open University. He has published widely on Beethoven, Wagner and contemporary music and writes regularly for the musical press. His chapter on emigre musicians ‘Music and Memory’ appears in The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth Century music (Bohlau Verlag 2014) and he co-edited, with Jutta Raab Hansen, the volume Music and Exile: 1933 to the Present Day (Brill 2023), a collection of essays on refugee musicians who escaped to Britain, USA, Australia and Shanghai. He is author of a monograph on ‘Boundary, Space, and Register in Beethoven’s Piano Works’ (Boydell, 2025).