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Terezín: The Music 1941–44 is a 2-CD set with music written by inmates at the Terezín concentration camp during World War II. [1] [2] [3] The collection features music by Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, and Viktor Ullmann. Haas, Krása, and Ullmann died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, and Klein died in Fürstengrube in 1945. [4]
Gideon Klein (6 December 1919 – c. January 1945) was a Czechoslovakian pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Klein was murdered in the Holocaust.
As with classical music, Jewish popular entertainers were forced to stop performing, and were frequently sent to concentration camps. The cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum was turned away at the border when he tried to leave Austria after the Anschluss for Czechoslovakia, and was sent to Buchenwald and later to Dachau , where he died in 1941.
This is a list of composers who have written music about the Holocaust, or who were directly influenced by the holocaust. This list is alphabetical by name. This list is alphabetical by name. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Playing for Time was based on Fénelon's experience as a female prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she and a group of classical musicians were spared in return for performing music for their captors. The film was later adapted as a play by Miller.
There is evidence that music of Wagner was used at the Dachau concentration camp in 1933/34 to 'reeducate' political prisoners by exposure to 'national music'. [38] However, there seems to be no documentation to support claims sometimes made that his music was played at Nazi death camps .
Pavel Haas (21 June 1899 – 17 October 1944) was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust.He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz.
But the later works, starting with the 1966 one-act opera Jutro ("tomorrow", based on the short story by Joseph Conrad) [6] become darker, particularly in the orchestral piece Psychodrama (1972) and in his final work, the song cycle for baritone and orchestra Głosy z oddali (‘Voices from afar’), which sets a bleak text by Jarosław ...