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Music and the Holocaust
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Viennese composer Alfons Josef Biron (also Josef Blau) was born #OTD in 1893. In 1926 he composed the operetta, Der Zauber einer Nacht (The Magic of One Night). He was killed on 30 July 1942 in Auschwitz.
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Fania Chapiro was just 14 when she refused Kulturkammer registration but performed at underground house concerts in exchange for food. She kept a diary during the war but many of her early compositions were lost in a bombing and subsequent fire.
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Music and the Holocaust
Music and the Holocaust
Saxophonist and violinist Eliazar Blok was born #OTD in 1905. He was sent to Terezin where he played in Terezin band and was deported to Dachau on 23 April 1945.
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Composer, teacher and violinist Hugo Kauder was born #OTD in 1888. Forced in 1938 to leave Vienna where he was a member of the Konzertverein Orchestra, he settled in New York in 1940 and spent the rest of his career composing and teaching there.
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German-Chilean composer Leni Alexander was born #OTD in 1924. She emigrated to Chile in 1939 to escape the Nazis. She studied with Rene Leibowitz and Olivier Messiaen and incorporated European themes into Chilean music.
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František Zelenka was born #OTD in 1904. He worked for the National Theater in Prague as one of the city’s premiere set designers. Deported to Terezin 13 Jul 1943, he designed sets for the FZG. He was sent to Auschwitz on 19 Oct 1944 and did not survive.
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Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff was born #OTD in 1894. He got caught up, through his communist leanings, in the German attacks on the USSR and and in the winter of 1941, he was deported to the Wülzburg concentration camp where he died of tuberculosis.
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Music and the Holocaust
Music and the Holocaust
Music and the Holocaust
Music and the Holocaust
Opera singer Teréz Rothauser was murdered in Theresienstadt in 1943 at the age of 79. Born #OTD in 1865 in Budapest to a Jewish family, she later moved to Berlin where she joined the Royal Opera House.
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Music and the Holocaust
Moshe Koussevitzky and his family escaped the Nazis by fleeing to the Soviet Union. He performed as an opera singer under the name Mikhail Koswitzky, appearing in Boris Godunov, Tosca and Rigoletto, and was honored for his contributions to national morale.
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Music and the Holocaust
Music and the Holocaust
German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator Ingolf Dahl was born #OTD in 1912. Dahl left Germany as the Nazi Party was coming to power and continued his studies at the University of Zurich. He emigrated to the United States in 1939.
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