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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. It has been described as the "most ...
Salem, band. Simon Sargon [3] Arnold Schoenberg [3] Erwin Schulhoff [34] William Schuman [3] The Polish composer Władysław Szpilman survived the Holocaust. The film The Pianist is based on his life. Ronald Senator. Dmitri Shostakovich [3]
A. Alive with the Glory of Love. Angel of Death (Slayer song) Annelies (Whitbourn) Atrocities (album) Auschwitz (song)
Red Sector A. " Red Sector A " is a song written and performed by Rush, from their 1984 album Grace Under Pressure. It provides a first-person account of a nameless protagonist living in an unspecified prison camp setting. Lyricist Neil Peart has stated that the detailed imagery in the song intentionally evokes concentration camps of the ...
The Sound of Hope. First edition. The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation During the Holocaust and World War II is a 2020 book about music in the Holocaust. It was written by Kellie Brown, Professor of Music at Milligan University and released by McFarland Publishing. [1][2]
Alice Herz-Sommer. Alice Herz-Sommer, also known as Alice Herz (26 November 1903 – 23 February 2014), was a Czech-born Israeli classical pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. She lived for 40 years in Israel, before emigrating to London in 1986, where she resided until her death, and at ...
A Survivor from Warsaw. A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46, is a work for narrator, chorus and orchestra by the Los Angeles–based Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, written in tribute to Holocaust victims. The main narration is written in Sprechgesang style, between speaking and singing; "never should there be a pitch" to its solo vocal line ...
Polish Ministry of Culture and Art Award (1962) Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, also translated as Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima[4][5] (Polish: Tren pamięci ofiar Hiroszimy), is a musical composition for 52 string instruments composed in 1961 by Krzysztof Penderecki. A threnody is a song or poem of mourning composed or performed ...