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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition The Korngolds – Cliché, Critic and Composer at the Jewish Museum Vienna 28 November 2007 – 18 May 2008 as part of the series Music in Transition.
Concept: Michael Haas, music curator
The included CD contains 16 very rare, mostly unissued tracks from Erich Wolfgang Korngold and some other artists.
Recorded 1928 – 1991.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957) was a child prodigy. whose pantomime, The snowman had already been premiered at the Imperial Opera by the time he was 13. His opera of 1920, Die tote Stadt became one of the most frequently performed works by a living composer. Max Reinhardt brought him to Hollywood in 1934 to arrange Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's score for his filming of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He went on to win two Oscars with film scores for Anthony Adverse in 1936 and The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938. The annexation of Austria meant that he and his family would settle permanently in Hollywood with his wish to return to Europe after the war remaining unfulfilled.

Julius Korngold (1860 - 1945), Erich Wolfgang's father, studied law and music in Vienna. He wrote music reviews for several Journals using pseudonyms while still working at his legal practice in Brno. He was subsequently engaged by Theodor Herzl to succeed Eduard Hanslick as the principal critic of the prestigious Viennese newspaper, Neue Freie Presse. Julius became one of the most powerful and feared music journalists of the day, carrying on an unrelenting campaign against 12 tone music and atonality There was considerable hostility generated by his being the city's principal music critic and father of one of Austria's most successful composers. In 1938, he fled with his wife and one of Erich's sons to Hollywood where, embittered, he died seven years later in 1945.