The Lost Music Project seeks to reconstruct the history of musical material culture looted, confiscated, displaced, or otherwise lost during the Nazi era in occupied Europe, and the aftermath.
Evolving research regarding musical manuscripts, printed music, music-related books and archives, musical instruments, and other musicalia documented in public and private archives will be posted to this website.
In addition to new research, a goal of this project is to make both information and copies of primary source historical records accessible to the public for further research efforts and analysis.
This project is led by Carla Shapreau.
Carel van Lier c. 1930. Looted and restituted ivory hunting horn. ©The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld