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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 volved in the notion that nomatter what else you do, you have an un- derstanding of folkmusic, even if basic. I don’t think that’s true of the Adlerpeople. PVB: No,theoneveryvisibleroleheplays,andwhichismentionedbythefolk- musicscholars,isthathewaspartofthecommissionin1904thatfounded the series,DasVolkslied inÖsterreich,73which reallywas a studyof in- dividual regions. Therewas evengoing tobe a Jewish-music volume. It mappedoutAustria and theMonarchy.Adler was on that commission, andheplayedavisible role. BN: Ithinkhewassomethingofanationalist. Itgetsmentionedseveral times inhis autobiography.MaybeAdler couldbeassociatedwithanother as- pect of the development of musicology, including a certain omnivo- rousness. First of all, the idea that the individual should have some knowledge of and interest in everything. The field as a whole is com- prehensive. I think he didn’t really go into, “well, now, shouldwe have zoomusicology?”Hetendedtopushtheborder.Thiswascontinuedmore intheUnitedStatesprobably thanelsewhere.That’s certainlyapossible areaofAdler’s influence. GuidoAdler’sAmericanGrandson BN: ThereisakindofindirectassociationofAdlerwithAmerica.Aboutfifteen yearsago,Ireceivedaphonecall fromamanwhoidentifiedhimselfasTom Adler (1938–2010), anattorney, and thegrandsonofGuidoAdler.Hehad heardthatmyfatherhadknownGuidoAdler,andwantedtoknowwhether IknewanythingaboutamanuscriptofaworkbyGustavMahlerwhichhad been inGuido’spossessionandwas lost. Idon’tknowanythingabout the circumstancesofTom’s family’s immigrationto theUSA, andsince Ihad no information for him, didn’t hear from him again. Later, however, I discoveredananonymouslywrittenobituaryofTomAdleronline.Bornin Vienna in 1938, he died on August 23, 2010, aged 72, in suburban San Diego,andtheobituary includesthefollowing lines telling thatTomAdler “sponsored the Guido Adler Piano Jazz Competition (a statewide com- petitionforhighschoolstudents).BorninViennaduringthebeginningof the Nazi occupation of that city, he worked tirelessly to recover family assetsstolenbytheNazis.Hisinvestigationculminatedinwritingthebook LosttotheWorld74andsuccessfully recoveringamanuscriptgivenasagift byGustavMahler tohis grandfatherGuidoAdler, the founderof the sci- 73 ReprintedasaspecialvolumeofCorpusmusicaepopularisAustriacae=Gesamtausgabeder Volksmusik inÖsterreich.Hg. vonWalterDeutsch.Vienna:BöhlauVerlag2004. 74 TomAdler,AnikaScott: Lost to theWorld.Philadelphia:Xlibris 2002. Adler inAmerica–AConversation 223 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0