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List of composers influenced by the Holocaust. 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.
A. Alive with the Glory of Love. Angel of Death (Slayer song) Annelies (Whitbourn) Atrocities (album) Auschwitz (song)
S. Schindler's List (soundtrack) A Survivor from Warsaw. Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich) Symphony No. 21 (Weinberg)
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, wrote the composer.
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.
In 1968 Jewish-Canadian composer Srul Irving Glick wrote the Holocaust-themed song cycle I Never Saw Another Butterfly for mezzosoprano (contralto) and orchestra or piano. The songs are based on children's poems from the concentration camp at Theresienstadt (1942–44). The cycle consists of 6 songs: To Olga; Yes thats the way things are
The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. It also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score. Theme from Schindler's List is one of the most recognized contemporary film scores, particularly the violin solo.
Date. 4 April 1977 (1977-04-04) Location. Royan, France. Conductor. Ernest Bour. Performers. Stefania Woytowicz (soprano) The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs ( Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych ), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and ...
The lyrics and music were written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman. They detail the Nazi physician Josef Mengele 's human experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II . "Angel of Death" led to accusations of Nazi sympathizing and racism against the band, which they vigorously denied but which followed them throughout their ...
The "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen" and the "Mauthausen Cantata", 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.