"Portrait of Elsa Bienenfeld a Jewish Music Critic in Turn-of-the Twent" by Kelsey Draper and Dr. Robert McFarland
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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Elsa Bienenfeld, Jewish music, Vienna

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

For my project, I researched the life and written works of Elsa Bienenfeld (1877–1942), a Viennese-born Jewish music critic who worked for the Neues Wiener Journal (daily newspaper) in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. I studied her life and her music reviews and wrote about her influence on the budding modern music movement that originated in Vienna during her lifetime. Because my project required original research from almost exclusively primary texts, I traveled to Vienna in the fall for a two-week research trip. This trip generated about 90% of my research and subsequently my thesis. I used ORCA funds to cover the costs of this trip. I analyzed in writing the largest current collection of primary documents on Bienenfeld. My study was an evaluation of her unique perspective on the Modern music movement.

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