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- Title
The Music Collection of the Former Prussian State Library at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, Poland: Past, Present, and Future Developments.
- Authors
Sroka, Marek
- Abstract
Before World War II the Prussian State Library, with its three million volumes, was one of the most important German libraries. It was operational until mid-1943, but the ever-increasing number of air raids over Berlin led to a large-scale evacuation of its collections to the east in late 1943 and early 1944. Among the most prized collections removed for safekeeping were hundreds of autograph scores and music manuscripts by Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. As the result of postwar border changes some of these collections ended up in the Jagiellonian University Library in Kraków, where they remain. Since the unification of Germany consecutive German governments have been trying to negotiate the return of the Prussian music collection from Kraków to Berlin. However, negotiations have been extremely difficult as the broader question of German compensations for losses inflicted on Polish libraries by the Nazis is being raised. This article discusses the Prussian music collection in the context of cultural heritage and war reparations.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ARCHIVAL materials; MUSIC manuscripts; WORLD War II; PROTECTION of cultural property (International law); STATE libraries; WAR damage compensation; CULTURAL policy; HISTORIC preservation; MILITARY occupation damages; UNIWERSYTET Jagiellonski; LIBRARIES
- Publication
Library Trends, 2007, Vol 55, Issue 3, p651
- ISSN
0024-2594
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lib.2007.0025