demusic1-6, Exercise 3: Recovering the music

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Two ways:
1. Recordings and performances: from the 1980s and 1990s record series and concert programmes brought back works that had been banned, forgotten or lost, including music written at Theresienstadt, so listeners could hear it again.
2. Research and archives: scholars searched for manuscripts, scores and records, and wrote histories of the musicians involved, reconstructing careers that had been broken off.

Why it is still going on: much music was lost, destroyed or never published, many composers' papers were scattered by exile and war, and the people who could identify them have died. Repertoire changes slowly, so orchestras and opera houses have to be persuaded to perform the works. Debates about how to remember the period, and about who stayed and prospered, continue as new evidence appears.