List of composers influenced by the Holocaust

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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. Script error: No such module "Hatnote". Template:Horizontal TOC

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File:Krzysztof Penderecki.jpg

Krzysztof Penderecki's Dies Irae (also known as the "Auschwitz Oratorio") is a well known work written in memory of the Holocaust.

Chava Alberstein
David Amram (1930– )^[1]^[2]

B

Dawid Beigelman (1887–1945)
Karel Berman^[3]
David Botwinik (1920–2022)

C

John Cage (1912–1992)^[4]

E

Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)^[5]

F

Grigory Frid (1915–2012)
Erich Frost^[6]

G

Mordechai Gebirtig (1877–1942)^[7]^[8]
Sylvia Glickman (1932–2006)^[9]
Hirsh Glick
Osvaldo Golijov (1960– )^[10]
Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)^[11]^[12]
Olivier Greif (1950–2000)

H

Pavel Haas (1899–1944)^[13]
Marilyn Herman (1960– ) "Rozsa's Wish" and "The Angel of Chomutov"
Michael Horvit^[3]
William B. Hoskins (1917–1997)^[14]

J

Wilfred Josephs^[3]

K

L

M

Mesías Maiguashca (born 1938) See Template:Ill (1997)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)^[26]
Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
Oskar Morawetz^[3]

N

Lior Navok (born 1971)
Șerban Nichifor (born 1954)^[27]^[28]
Luigi Nono 1924–1990)^[29]

O

File:Arnold Schoenberg la 1948.jpg

Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw depicts the story of a survivor from Warsaw's ghetto during the Second World War.

Tera de Marez Oyens^[3]

P

Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945)^[30]
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)^[3]^[31]
Dmitri Pokrass
Yehuda Poliker
Marta Ptaszynska^[32]

R

S

File:Władysław Szpilman.jpg

The Polish composer Władysław Szpilman survived the Holocaust. The film The Pianist is based on his life.

T

U

Viktor Ullmann^[41]

W

Z

References

↑ "The Final Ingredient", The New York Times, April 12, 1965 (Retrieved 7 December 2007)
↑ Timeless music (a review of The Final Ingredient: An Opera of the Holocaust in One Act.) The Chronicle (Kansas City, Kansas), March, 1997 (Retrieved on 7 December 2007)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Music in response to the Holocaust (Retrieved July 7, 2007)
↑ In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)
↑ Hanns Eisler Script error: No such module "webarchive". Hanns Eisler Project (Retrieved July 16, 2007)
↑ Stand Fast (Fest steht) Script error: No such module "webarchive". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)
↑ Mordechai Gebirtig His Poetic and Musical Legacy by Gertrude Schneider. Praeger Publishers Template:ISBN
↑ Our Town Is Burning Script error: No such module "webarchive". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)
↑ The Walls Are Quiet Now Albany Records (2001)
↑ Holocaust – A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz Golijov homepage (Retrieved on 16 July 2007)
↑ Kertész, Imre. "Górecki's Symphony no.3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' Script error: No such module "webarchive".". Le Chercheur de traces. Retrieved on 16 July 2007.
↑ Han-Leon, Chia. "Symphony No.3, op.36 (1976) Script error: No such module "webarchive".". The Flying Inkpot, 9 December 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
↑ Pavel Haas – Czech Composer Script error: No such module "webarchive". Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". American composer, pacifist, conscientious objector in World War II, wrote 8-movement Requiem for the Six Million in 1960s. Performed by chorus from local synagogue and Unitarian congregation with brass, percussion, organ and piano, Jacksonville, Florida USA, 1965. Text by Charles White McGehee, Unitarian minister.
↑ Friling – Spring by Shmerke Kaczerginski in an online exhibition by Yad Vashem
↑ Rivkele di shabesdike Script error: No such module "webarchive". Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ Gideon Klein – Czech Composer Script error: No such module "webarchive". Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
↑ Wally Kleucker – American Composer In Remembrance of the Holocaust Victims for mixed chorus and organ
↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Oregon Literary Review, vol. 1, no. 1
↑ Hans Krasa – Czech Composer Script error: No such module "webarchive". Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved Juli 17, 2007)
↑ Jozef Kropinski Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ Szymon Laks, Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ Aron Liebeskind Script error: No such module "webarchive". Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ Where Is the Holocaust in All This? György Ligeti and the Dialectics of Life and Work (1942)
↑ Songs of Remembrance (1996) Song cycle on poems of the Holocaust; soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass-baritone, piano, oboe and oboe d'amore. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Oratorio: Testimony of Witnesses Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
↑ Rischin, Rebecca (2003). For the End of Time : The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. Cornell University Press. Template:ISBN.
↑ Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project. Serban Nichifor
↑ Shoah Music by Serban Nichifor
↑ Luigi Nono's "Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto ad Auschwitz", Penn State School of Music (Retrieved 8 July 2008) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
↑ Letter to Warsaw, Thomas Pasatieri homepage (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
↑ Soli, Choir and Ensemble or Orchestra works Script error: No such module "webarchive". Penderecki homepagem (Retrieved May 24, 2007)
↑ Holocaust Memorial Cantata (1992) Script error: No such module "webarchive".
↑ The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process by Ann McCutchan (1999) Template:ISBN
↑ Erwin Schulhoff Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Retrieved July 7, 2007)
↑ Biography Leo Smit Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Retrieved 29 October 2007)
↑ Stockhausen: A Biography by Kurtz, Michael. 1992, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. Template:ISBN
↑ Karel Svenk Classical Composers (S) (Retrieved 28 January 2008)
↑ The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945 by Władysław Szpilman, Foreword Andrzej Szpilman (2002) Template:ISBN
↑ "Ein Judische Kind" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ A Child of Our Time. Script error: No such module "webarchive". Michael Tippett's web site (Retrieved July 15, 2007)
↑ Biography Script error: No such module "webarchive". Viktor Ullmann Foundation (Retrieved July 15, 2007)
↑ "I Wander Through Theresienstadt" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ "Recovering a Holocaust Opera", Script error: No such module "webarchive". Alex Ross review of The Passenger, The New Yorker (Retrieved 14 August 2013)
↑ Dachau Lied Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Retrieved July 7, 2007)
↑ Herbert Zipper Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
↑ Krystyna Zywulska Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

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External links

Music of the Holocaust, online exhibition by Yad Vashem

[1] "The Final Ingredient", The New York Times, April 12, 1965 (Retrieved 7 December 2007)

[2] Timeless music (a review of The Final Ingredient: An Opera of the Holocaust in One Act.) The Chronicle (Kansas City, Kansas), March, 1997 (Retrieved on 7 December 2007)

[fcit-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Music in response to the Holocaust (Retrieved July 7, 2007)

[4] In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)

[5] Hanns Eisler Script error: No such module "webarchive". Hanns Eisler Project (Retrieved July 16, 2007)

[6] Stand Fast (Fest steht) Script error: No such module "webarchive". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)

[7] Mordechai Gebirtig His Poetic and Musical Legacy by Gertrude Schneider. Praeger Publishers Template:ISBN

[8] Our Town Is Burning Script error: No such module "webarchive". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)

[9] The Walls Are Quiet Now Albany Records (2001)

[10] Holocaust – A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz Golijov homepage (Retrieved on 16 July 2007)

[11] Kertész, Imre. "Górecki's Symphony no.3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' Script error: No such module "webarchive".". Le Chercheur de traces. Retrieved on 16 July 2007.

[12] Han-Leon, Chia. "Symphony No.3, op.36 (1976) Script error: No such module "webarchive".". The Flying Inkpot, 9 December 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2007.

[13] Pavel Haas – Czech Composer Script error: No such module "webarchive". Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007)

[14] Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". American composer, pacifist, conscientious objector in World War II, wrote 8-movement Requiem for the Six Million in 1960s. Performed by chorus from local synagogue and Unitarian congregation with brass, percussion, organ and piano, Jacksonville, Florida USA, 1965. Text by Charles White McGehee, Unitarian minister.

[15] Friling – Spring by Shmerke Kaczerginski in an online exhibition by Yad Vashem

[16] Rivkele di shabesdike Script error: No such module "webarchive". Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[17] Gideon Klein – Czech Composer Script error: No such module "webarchive". Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007)

[18] Wally Kleucker – American Composer In Remembrance of the Holocaust Victims for mixed chorus and organ

[19] Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Oregon Literary Review, vol. 1, no. 1

[20] Hans Krasa – Czech Composer Script error: No such module "webarchive". Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved Juli 17, 2007)

[21] Jozef Kropinski Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[22] Szymon Laks, Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[23] Aron Liebeskind Script error: No such module "webarchive". Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[24] Where Is the Holocaust in All This? György Ligeti and the Dialectics of Life and Work (1942)

[25] Songs of Remembrance (1996) Song cycle on poems of the Holocaust; soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass-baritone, piano, oboe and oboe d'amore. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Oratorio: Testimony of Witnesses Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

[26] Rischin, Rebecca (2003). For the End of Time : The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. Cornell University Press. Template:ISBN.

[27] Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project. Serban Nichifor

[28] Shoah Music by Serban Nichifor

[29] Luigi Nono's "Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto ad Auschwitz", Penn State School of Music (Retrieved 8 July 2008) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

[30] Letter to Warsaw, Thomas Pasatieri homepage (Retrieved July 17, 2007)

[31] Soli, Choir and Ensemble or Orchestra works Script error: No such module "webarchive". Penderecki homepagem (Retrieved May 24, 2007)

[32] Holocaust Memorial Cantata (1992) Script error: No such module "webarchive".

[33] The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process by Ann McCutchan (1999) Template:ISBN

[34] Erwin Schulhoff Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Retrieved July 7, 2007)

[35] Biography Leo Smit Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Retrieved 29 October 2007)

[36] Stockhausen: A Biography by Kurtz, Michael. 1992, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. Template:ISBN

[37] Karel Svenk Classical Composers (S) (Retrieved 28 January 2008)

[38] The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945 by Władysław Szpilman, Foreword Andrzej Szpilman (2002) Template:ISBN

[39] "Ein Judische Kind" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[40] A Child of Our Time. Script error: No such module "webarchive". Michael Tippett's web site (Retrieved July 15, 2007)

[41] Biography Script error: No such module "webarchive". Viktor Ullmann Foundation (Retrieved July 15, 2007)

[42] "I Wander Through Theresienstadt" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[43] "Recovering a Holocaust Opera", Script error: No such module "webarchive". Alex Ross review of The Passenger, The New Yorker (Retrieved 14 August 2013)

[44] Dachau Lied Script error: No such module "webarchive". (Retrieved July 7, 2007)

[45] Herbert Zipper Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

[46] Krystyna Zywulska Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)

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