 However, whereas in Germany he was persecuted as a Jew, in New Zealand, he was shunned as a German.He wrote further chamber music, another string quartet and a piano quintet, songs, including "A New Zealand Christmas" to the words of Eileen Duggan, which was sung for the Queen during her 1953 visit to Rotorua by a Maori girls' choir, and in a Broadcast to Schools by T.