The Nazis ended or upended the lives of more than two dozen notable European composers in the 1930s or ’40s, altering the course of modern music history and causing many of them to be forgotten or overlooked.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one of the best-known of these musical creators—most of them Jewish—will be spotlighted April 1-10 during a festival organized by the University of Chicago and Folks Operetta, which has rediscovered and produced rare Austrian and German operettas since 2006.
