by admin | Aug 18, 2019 | Terezin Composers
Zikmund Schul was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Chemnitz, Germany, on 11 January 1916, moving with his parents to Kassel, in Saxony, on 3 September 1928. Zikmund and his father departed from Germany, taking residence in Prague on 7 October 1933. At some...
by admin | Aug 18, 2019 | Terezin Composers
Article by Michael Beckerman Pavel Haas was born into a wealthy and prominent Jewish family in the Moravian capital of Brno. This was a city with a rich cultural life, and it was during Haas’ childhood that Leoš Janáček established himself as a leading...
by admin | Aug 18, 2019 | Terezin Composers
Article by Gwyneth Bravo Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944) was born on 1 January 1898 in the garrison town of Teschen in Silesia, in what belonged to the Austro–Hungarian Empire and is now a part of the Czech Republic. Educated in Vienna, Ullmann made important...
by admin | Aug 18, 2019 | Terezin Composers
Article by Michael BeckermanGideon Klein (1919-1945) was a pianist, composer, writer and educator. In his short life he combined a dizzying array of skills, experiences, musical styles and activity. He arranged Hebrew folk melodies, wrote quarter-tone compositions,...
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