Gustav Mahler, Julius Korngold and the Neue Freie Presse

Michael Haas studied piano and composition at Vienna's Music Academy and Vienna's Conservatory and received his PhD in 2016 at London Middlesex University. From 1977, he was engaged as a producer at Decca Records working primarily with Sir Georg Solti. In the mid-1980s, he initiated the series "Entartete Musik", the first retrospective of music lost during the Nazi years. He then moved to Sony Classical where he produced Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic before being appointed Vice President at Sony Classical in New York. He returned to Decca Records in 1995. In 2000, Haas worked as a freelance producer and was appointed Director of the Suppressed Music Division at the Jewish Music Institute at SOAS, London University. From 2002-2010 he was Music Curator at Vienna's Jewish Museum. His books include Forbidden Music - The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis (2013) and The Music of Exile (2023). In 2016 he co-founded the Exilarte Center at Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts. Over the course of his professional career as recording producer Haas has won many recording prizes including four Grammys.