“Glück, das mir verblieb”

Erich Wolfgang Korngold had to discover when visiting his old home in Europe after the Second World War: He was forgotten. His popularity in the USA and his film music Oscars did not count in this country. In the meantime, however, the composer has experienced his well-deserved worldwide revival. The Viennese child prodigy was born in 1897 into a declining world. Influenced by his father, the powerful conservative music critic Julius Korngold, Erich Wolfgang Korngold still grew up in the musical tradition of the 19th century. Early on, his repertoire as a composer included songs, instrumental works and operatic works such as the acclaimed "Dead City". From the 1920s onwards, he went his own musical way outside the classical tradition, such as adapting operettas. The book deals with the wide range of Korngold's sound world as well as the composer's life with its ups and downs. The role of his wife Luzi, who always stood by him, and the gratifying Korngold reception of recent years complement the wide-ranging subject matter of the reader. This also includes the articles by Korngold's granddaughter Kathrin Korngold Hubbard. She tells in a touching way about her life in the USA as a musician following in the footsteps of her famous grandfather. With a foreword by Simone Young, a preface by Heide Stockinger and articles by Kathrin Hubbard Korngold, Kurt Arrer, Lis Malina, Oswald Panagl, Gottfried Franz Kasparek, Karin Wagner, Nobuko Nakamura, Kerstin Schüssler-Bach, Heide Stockinger and Robert Oltay.