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It is frankly Iittle short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. The main reason for his relegation to obiivion is a fact that Fruhling kept secret; a fact that nevertheless had to be declared on official documents: he was Jewish. Even before the Nazis took power his religion had caused him problems, making it difficult for him to pursue a career