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Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance 

byJeremy Eichler

Music critic Jeremy Eichler explores how composers transformed the Second World War and Holocaust into works of remembrance. Focusing on Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten, he connects music with destroyed cities, exile, genocide, guilt, and the struggle to mourn after catastrophe. Concerts, archives, landscapes, and survivor testimony reveal how sound can preserve historical experience when words fail. Eichler treats musical works as “echoes” that carry memory across generations, asking what art can witness, whom it commemorates, and how listeners inherit events they did not experience.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780525521716