MUSIC BEHIND WALLS .::. Composers First

In the eyes of their captors, the following people were first and foremost prisoners. Yet by pushing past the limits of physical hardship with an intellectual and spiritual intensity, together they composed over seventy new works of music between 1941 and 1945. Though many of them and their compositions did not survive, today we recognize these artists beyond their status as prisoners, as composers first...

 

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Pavel Haas

Gideon Klein

Hans Krasa

Viktor Ullmann

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Heinz Alta

Karel Berman

Robert Brock

Frantisek Domazlicky

Viktor Kohn

David Grunfeld

Egon Ledec

Karel Reiner

Martin Roman

Zikmund Schul

Karel Svenk

Carlo Taube

Bedrich Weiss