Ruth Schonthal

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This is the first monograph about Ruth Schonthal, the internationally-renowned composer whose works are performed worldwide. Parts of the work are based on conversations that the author conducted with Ms. Schonthal over the past 20 years. The book is also the first contribution to exile research concerned with artists that fled Nazi Germany in their childhood. Ruth Schonthal's unique and dramatic biography encompasses three continents and now spans eight decades.