Brigitte Schiffer: Letters from Cairo 1935–1963

Brigitte Schiffer: Letters from Cairo 1935–1963Born in Berlin in 1909, the composer, musicologist and educator Brigitte Schiffer fled Nazi Germany for Egypt in the mid 1930s, where she soon became one of the defining figures of Cairos musical culture. She directed a High School of Music, worked for the Egyptian Ministry of Education, and established a salon where artists and intellectuals gathered. Based on an annotated selection of her letters from that time, the publication makes her extensive

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but above all

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By inquiring into the political

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