Music of Resistance and Remembrance, Pt I: Karl Wiener, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and Erwin Schulhoff

Music of Resistance and Remembrance, Pt I: Karl Wiener, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and Erwin Schulhoff

Music of Resistance and Remembrance, Part 1: Works by 3 composers who perished in WWII. Austrian Karl Weiner was trained in Vienna, after losing the use of his right hand in WWI he became musical advisor to the first radio station in Berlin. He lost his job when the National Socialists came into power and was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he died in 1942. The Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová died at the tragically young age 25 in France while fleeing the Nazis. A student of Nadia Boulanger and Bohuslav Martinů she wrote her “Tales of a Small Flute” for her husband, an amateur recorder player. Prague-born Erwin Schulhoff died in the Wülzburg concentration camp in 1942. “Susi”, which he labelled a “fox-song”, was written under the pseudonym Eman Balzar.

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