The Viennese violinist Arnold Rosé (1863-1946) held a musical civilisation together. Brother-in-law of Mahler, friend to Brahms and a legendary chamber musician, in 1884 he became leader of the Vienna Philharmonic – a post he held under Mahler and Richard Strauss until the Nazis drove him into exile in London in 1938. His daughter Alma conducted the women’s orchestra in Auschwitz; she didn’t survive. After the war, the........

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