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

Notes and references

359 INTRODUCTION 1 Fleischmann to his son, undated, mid July 1957. For the text of full letter see Chapter 3, p. 120. 2 Joachim Fischer, Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890–1939 (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000) pp. 621–4. It is most unfortunate that this fascinating interdisciplinary 680page study of Irish perceptions of Germany 1890–1939 has not yet been translated into English. 3 See Axel Klein, Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert (Hildesheim: 1996), pp. 394–5. 4 See Frederick May, ‘The Composer in Ireland’in Aloys Fleischmann (ed.), Music in Ireland (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952) pp. 164–6, and Séumas Ó Braonáin, ‘Music in the Broadcasting Service’, ibid, pp. 198–9. 5 See Bernard Curtis, Century of the Cork School of Music 1878–1978: Progress of the School 1878–1978 (Cork: 1978), pp. 11–13. 6 Ibid., p. 22. 7 Aloys Fleischmann, ‘Music in Cork’in Aloys Fleischmann (ed.), Music in Ireland, pp. 269–70. 8 Joachim Fischer in his Das Deutschlandbild der Iren provides a detailed description of the project (pp. 238–64); he deplores the fact that this most significant undertaking has been largely ignored by Irish historians. 9 See James M. Doyle, ‘Music in the Army’ in Aloys Fleischmann (ed.), Music in Ireland, pp. 65–6. 10 See Axel Klein, Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert (Hildesheim: 1996), p. 50, and Gareth Cox and Joseph J. Ryan ‘Fritz Brase’s Contribution to Irish Musical Life 1923–1940’ in Joachim Fischer, Gisela Holfter (Eds.), Creative Influences: Selected Irish-German Biographies (Trier: 2009). See too Martin Steffen, ‘Wiedersehen mit Dublin, Teil II: Militärmusik in Irland zwischen 1923 und 1947 – Die Ära BraseSauerzweig ’ in Mit Klingendem Spiel: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Militärmusik e.V. 1/2008, pp. 14–18, 28, which was kindly provided by the author. 11 Duggan in an interview to Joachim Fischer: see Das Deutschlandbild der Iren, p. 272. 12 The Leader, 7 November 1908: see Joachim Fischer, Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890–1939, pp. 45, 88. The authors are indebted to Dr Patrick Zuk for drawing their attention to the Leader caricature, 29 June 1901, p. 277. 13 The Germans in Cork, published anonymously in 1917 by the Unionist Lady Mary Carbery, is analysed by Joachim Fischer in Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890–1939, pp. 169–78. 14 W.P. Ryan, The Pope’s Green Island (London: James Nisbet & Co, 1912), pp. 96–7. 15 See Richard O’Donoghue, Like a Tree Planted: Father O’Flynn of the Loft (Dublin: Gill, 1967), pp. 34–8. 16 Ibid., p. 207. Notes and references 17 Raymond Smith, Father O’Flynn: The Well of Love (Dublin: Little and McClean, 1964), p. 28. 18 Ibid., p. 57. 19 J.C. O’Flynn, ‘The Art of Tragedy’, the Cork Examiner, 3 May 1930. 20 Aloys Fleischmann junior quoting Father O’Flynn in a letter to the priest of 21 Sept. 1939, written in response to Fr O’Flynn’s letter to the Editor, Cork Examiner, 19 Sept. 1939 ‘Eire and Art’. 1. YOUTH IN DACHAU 1880–1906 1 See August Kübler, Dachau in verflossenen Jahrhunderten (Dachau: Druckerei und Verlagsanstalt ‘Bayerland’, 1928), p. 7: dâha is Old High German for ‘clay’, and ouwe Middle High German for ‘water’. 2 Ibid, p. 101. However, infant mortality came to almost 40 per cent as late as 1868/9 – see Gerhard Hanke and Wilhelm Liebhart, Der Landkreis Dachau, Kulturgeschichte des Dachauer Landes, Bd. 1 (Dachau: Kreis Dachau und Verlagsanstalt ‘Bayerland’, 1992), p. 54. Between 1871 and 1881 the average life expectancy from birth in Germany was 35.6 years for male children and 38.5 for female children; only 30 per cent of the population reached the age of sixty – today 89 per cent of German men and 94 per cent of the women do so: see Statistisches Bundesamt, Sterbetafel 2005/07. 3 Gerhard Hanke, Wilhelm Liebhart, Norbert Göttler, Hans-Günter Richardi, Geschichte des Marktes und der Stadt Dachau (Musemsverein Dachau, 1985), p.101. 4 Hans-Günter Richardi, Dachauer Zeitgeschichtsführer (Stadt Dachau, 1998), p. 16, and Horst Heres, Dachauer Gemäldegalerie: Kulturgeschichte des Dachauer Landes, Bd. 12 (Museumsverein Dachau, 1985), p. 21. 5 August Kübler, Strassen, Bürger und Häuser in Alt-Dachau (Münnerstadt: Eigenverlag, 1934), p.149. The Fleischmanns’ house was Wieningerstrasse 22. Josef Deger died in 1881; his wife in 1894. To obtain the master-licence, the craftsman had to prove that he owned suitable premises for his...