'An excellent dumping ground for the Central European rejects': refugee teachers at the Melbourne University Conservatorium in the 1930s

Bernard Heinze was the Professor of music at University of Melbourne, and during a tour of Europe in 1938, many Jewish musicians approached him with a view to emigrating to Australia, but he warned them of the difficulties involved. Australia was less hospitable to musicians than was the United States, but some refugee musicians from Germany and Austria were successful. Among the the refugee teachers who did contributed significantly to the quality of the Melbourne University Conservatorium was Adolf Spivakovsky. The composer and music critic Felix Werder who had been deported aboard HMT Dunera served as lecturer in musical aesthetics at the Conservatorium from 1966-1970