Celebrating Vienna’s Center for Banned Music

Members of the Vienna Philharmonic with distinguished Czech pianist David Hausknecht celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Vienna’s Exilarte – Center for Banned Music and the 10th Anniversary of the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna’s Exilarte Research Center, with a performance of music by Gustav Mahler, Erwin Schulhoff, and Walter Bricht. 

This concert honors the voices of those composers, performers, music researchers, and theater artists who were considered “degenerate” and were silenced by the Nazis during the Third Reich, and whose works have often been forgotten. For two decades, the Exilarte Center has served as a contact point and interface for the reception, research, preservation, and presentation of this important cultural heritage.

The concert will be followed by a reception.