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Terezín: The Music 1941–44 is a 2-CD set with music written by inmates at the Terezín concentration camp during World War II. [1] [2] [3] The collection features music by Pavel Haas, Gideon Klein, Hans Krása, and Viktor Ullmann. Haas, Krása, and Ullmann died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, and Klein died in Fürstengrube in 1945. [4]
The "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen" [3] and the "Mauthausen Cantata", [4] is a cycle of four arias with lyrics based on poems written by Greek poet Iakovos Kambanellis, a Mauthausen concentration camp survivor, and music written by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.
Background music (British English: piped music) is a mode of musical performance in which the music is not intended to be a primary focus of potential listeners, but its content, character, and volume level are deliberately chosen to affect behavioral and emotional responses in humans such as concentration, relaxation, distraction, and excitement.
Gideon Klein (6 December 1919 – c. January 1945) was a Czechoslovakian pianist, classical music composer, educator and organizer of cultural life at Theresienstadt concentration camp. Klein was murdered in the Holocaust.
Memorial at the place of the entry to the former concentration camp "Börgermoor", where the song originated. The stone shows the first verse in German. "Peat Bog Soldiers" (German: Die Moorsoldaten) is one of Europe's best-known protest songs. It exists in countless European languages and became a Republican anthem during the Spanish Civil War ...
Terezín: The Music 1941–44 is a set of CDs of music composed by inmates at Terezín concentration camp. [48] [49] [50] It contains chamber music by Gideon Klein, Viktor Ullmann, and Hans Krása, the children's opera Brundibár by Krása, and songs by Ullmann and Pavel Haas.
Music aggravated the detainees, physically and morally. It incited the detainees to work, without reflection. [3] Registration form of Simon Laks as a prisoner at Dachau Nazi Concentration Camp. On 28 October 1944, he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp. On 29 April 1945, the camp was liberated by the American army.
The music was based on an earlier work by Eduardo Bianco." [3] During torture the orchestra performed a foxtrot, [citation needed] and often played for several hours in a row under the window of the head of the concentration camp. Shortly before the liberation of Lviv, all orchestra musicians were shot. [3]