Selected Publications

Wanda Landowska with her 17th century clavichord, looted by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Sonderstab Musik in 1940. Photo credit: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Wanda Landowska with her 17th century clavichord, looted by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s Sonderstab Musik in 1940. Photo credit: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

"The Nazi Confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s Musical Collection and Its Aftermath,” by Carla Shapreau, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, eds., François Guesnet, Benjamin Matis, Antony Polonsky, Vol. 32, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with University of Liverpool Press, 2020

"Documenting the Violin Trade in Paris: The Archives of Albert Caressa and Émile Français, 1930-1945,” by Carla Shapreau, Christine Laloue, and Jean-Philippe Échard, in Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach, eds., Jane Milosch and Nick Pearce, Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, Smithsonian Institution and University of Glasgow in association with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, October 2019

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“The Plunder and Restitution of Vg: The Nazi Era and its Aftermath, 1940–9,” The Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript, Introductory Study, by Lawrence Earp with Domenic Leo and Carla Shapreau, Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music Publications, Oxford University, 2014. American Musicological Society Claude V. Palisca Award, 2015

“Bells in the Cultural Soundscape: Nazi-Era Plunder, Repatriation, and Campanology,” in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation, eds., Frank Gunderson, Robert C. Lancefield, and Bret Woods, Oxford University Press, 2018/2019

"German Panel Rules That a Rare Violin Was Looted by Nazis," by Graham Bowley and Carla Shapreau, New York Times, December 9, 2016

“The Austrian Copyright Society and Blacklisting During the Nazi Era,” by Carla Shapreau, The OREL Foundation, 2014

“The Vienna Archives: Musical Expropriations During the Nazi Era and 21st Century Ramifications,” by Carla Shapreau, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Report, 2014

“The Loss of French Musical Property During World War II, Post-War Repatriations, Restitutions, and 21st Century Ramifications,” by Carla Shapreau, France-Berkeley Fund Report, 2013

“A Violin Once Owned by Goebbels Keeps its Secrets,” by Carla Shapreau, New York Times, September 21, 2012

“The Stolen Instruments of the Third Reich,” by Carla Shapreau, The Strad, December 2009

 

“Musical Cultural Property: The Nazi Era and Post-War Provenance Challenges,” by Carla Shapreau, Looted Art Working Group, EU Conference Proceedings, Prague, Czech Republic, June 26 - 30, 2009, pp. 1027-37