Understanding the history of 1930s musical migrants to Britain through minimal computing-led digital humanities: the Hamburger-Lidka-Fuchsová Database and Datasets

Whitfield, S. K. (2023) Understanding the history of 1930s musical migrants to Britain through minimal computing-led digital humanities: the Hamburger-Lidka-Fuchsová Database and Datasets. [Dataset]

Abstract

Líza Fuchsová, Maria Lidka, and Paul Hamburger all left Nazi-occupied Europe during the late 1930s and settled permanently in the UK. Fuchsová (1913-1977) was a Czech pianist who became an advocate for Czech musical culture as well as an important piano soloist; Hamburger (1920-2004) was an accompanist and teacher who left Vienna for London and became a senior figure in BBC radio and Guildhall professor; and Lidka (1914-2013) [Marianne Liedtke], was a violinist, orchestra leader and later Royal College of Music professor. Their careers have been underexplored, but machine-read digitised archives have opened new possibilities for finding and sorting what can seem like an overwhelming amount of performance data. This is the underpinning data for the project, the set of files are outputted from the Hamburger-Lidka-Fuchsová Database (HLFDatabase), a database compiled by Sarah K. Whitfield as part of the AHRC funded Music, Migration and Mobility project. The full working database is available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ts0wXoudIToWN0r0iaSLZWIradiXLsdqx5OjoVqT4yA/edit#gid=1338942989 These supporting datasets cover six different aspects of the project: 1) Venues (This dataset contains the full details of 163 venues used in the HLFDatabase); 2) Composers (this will be useful for anyone working on chamber music or concert music in 1940s and 1950s); 3) Repertoire (this will be useful for anyone working on chamber music or concert music in 1940s and 1950s); 4) Maria Lidka (this dataset covers her performance career from 1940-1954); 5) Paul Hamburger (this dataset covers his performance career from 1940-1954); 6) Líza Fuchsová (this dataset covers her performance career from 1940-1954). The entire dataset is released under CC BY-NC 4.0 permission (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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