Aloys Fleischmann (1880-1964): Immigrant Musician in Ireland

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v Contents Acknowledgements vii Preface by Joseph Cunningham ix Preface by Ruth Fleischmann xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Youth in Dachau 1880–1906 11 SUPPLEMENTS The Dachau school of music for orchestral instruments of 1905 by Andreas Pernpeintner 48 Nativity plays in Dachau by Josef Focht 53 Aloys Fleischmann’s home town Dachau by Ursula K. Nauderer 58 Chapter 2: The FirstYears in Cork 1906–1914 64 Chapter 3: Internment during the First World War 112 Chapter 4: Life in the Free State 1920–34 131 Chapter 5: Handing on the Torch 1934–64 198 The music of Aloys Georg Fleischmann 269 by Séamas de Barra APPENDICES 1. Aloys Georg Fleischmann: an annotated catalogue of compositions by Séamas de Barra 315 2. Cathedral Choir Members in Fleischmann’s Time 356 Notes and references 359 Bibliography 387 Index 395 Acknowledgements vii We would like to express our gratitude to: Dr Elisabeth Boser, Director of the Dachau Art Gallery, for permission to reproduce paintings; Ursula Nauderer, Director of the Dachau District Museum, for having ‘discovered’ the Fleischmanns and done much to preserve Fleischmann’s memory in his home town ever since, and for permission to reproduce old photographs; Andreas Bräunling, Municipal Archivist of Dachau, for help with research; Dr Josef Focht, Music Department of the University of Munich, for having ‘discovered’ the Fleischmanns and supported the research ever since; Dr Erich Pillwein of Munich for kind support in researching the painter Oskar Stohandl; Sabine Brantl of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts for help in researching the painter Oskar Stohandl; Gertrud Beckmann, née Rössler, Dachau, Tilly Fleischmann’s cousin, for decades of hospitality; Hildegard Braceschi, née Schaehle, Weilheim/Bavaria, with her son Georg and daughter Paula Ader, for having permitted us to search among her papers for Fleischmann letters: in January 2009 we found sixty-two letters written to her father between 1912 and 1960; Elisabeth Peren and her son Alexander of Dachau for help with genealogical research; Josef Biersack, Maxhütte-Haidhof, for help in tracing the Fleischmanns of the Regensburg area; Andreas and Franz Dengl, cousins of Aloys Fleischmann’s mother, Leni Deger, for providing photographs ; the Gluck family, Dachau, for providing a Fleischmann letter of 1949; Florian Lang, Oberammergau, for material about his grandfather , Andreas Lang, who was interned with Fleischmann during the First World War; Dr Rudolf von Moreau, Munich, for information about his family; Hermann Windele, former mayor of Dachau and member of the Liedertafel Choir, for documentation of Aloys Fleischmann’s father as founding member of the choir. Thanks also to: the directors of the Archives of University College Cork: to the former director, Virginia Teehan for having taken the Fleischmann Papers into the care of the university, and for the invaluable support which she and her successor, Catriona Mulcahy, have viii Acknowledgements given since then; Ciarán Mangan and John Smith for information about the internment camp in Oldcastle, Co Meath; Yvonne M. Cresswell of the Manx Museum and National Trust, Douglas, Isle of Man, for help in researching Fleischmann’s time as internee; the priests of the diocese of Cork and Ross for help in researching Fleischmann’s work at the cathedral : Dr Declan Mansfield, Administrator of the Diocese of Cork and Ross, Dr Tom Deenihan, Diocesan Secretary, Fr Tom Hayes, Fr Ted O’Sullivan, former Diocesan Secretary of Cork and Ross; Rev. Dr David Lannon of the Diocese of Salford, Lancs and Tom Flanagan; Denise O’Sullivan for copies of cathedral documents; Dr Myles Reardon of the Vincentian Archives in Raheny and Br John Brazil for information about the Swertz family; Regina Deacy for allowing us to read a draft of her thesis ‘Continental Organists and Catholic Church Music in Ireland 1860–1960’; Cork City Libraries for permission to reproduce old photographs ; the following for valuable information, assistance and permission to reproduce documents: Mona Brase, the late Patricia Cox, Julian Dodd, Dan Donovan, Adrian Gebruers, Charles Henchion, Aidan Kennedy, Maighread Murphy, Ann and Eoin Neeson, Íde Ní Laoghaire, Colum Ó Cléirigh, Madoline O’Connell, Patrick O’Connor, Máirín O’Rourke, the late Moira Pyne, Sister Cathy of the Presentation Order, Erika Roth, Martin Steffen, Michael Weedle. We are under special obligation to those who have contributed directly to the biography: Séamas de Barra, whose essay gives the first scholarly assessment of Fleischmann’s music and who has compiled an annotated catalogue of...