List of composers influenced by the Holocaust explained

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

• 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

• Shmerke Kaczerginski^[15]
• Peysakh Kaplan^[16]
• Ståle Kleiberg (1958–)
• Gideon Klein (1919–1945)^[17]
• Wally Kleucker (1947–)^[18]
• Douglas Knehans (1957–)^[19]
• Józef Koffler
• Max Kowalski (1882–1956)

• Hans Krása (1899–1944)^[20]
• Jozef Kropinski^[21]
• Meyer Kupferman (1926–2003)

L

• Szymon Laks^[22]
• Aron Liebeskind^[23]
• György Ligeti (1923–2006)^[24]
• Ruth Lomon^[25]

M

• Mesías Maiguashca (born 1938) See (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

• 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

• Shulamit Ran^[33]
• Steve Reich^[3]

S

• Salem, band
• Simon Sargon^[3]
• Arnold Schoenberg^[3]
• Erwin Schulhoff^[34]
• William Schuman^[3]

• Ronald Senator
• Dmitri Shostakovich^[3]
• Leo Smit^[35]
• Ben Steinberg^[3]
• Karlheinz Stockhausen^[36]
• Karel Švenk (1917–1945)^[37]
• Władysław Szpilman^[38]

T

• Carlo Taube^[39]
• Sir Michael Tippett^[40]
• Mikis Theodorakis
• Marcel Tyberg

U

• Viktor Ullmann^[41]

W

• Ilse Weber^[42]
• Mieczysław Weinberg^[43]
• László Weiner (1916–1944)
• Lazar Weiner

Z

• Herbert Zipper^{[44] [45]}
• John Zorn
• Krystyna Żywulska^[46]

See also

• The Holocaust in the arts and popular culture

External links

• Music of the Holocaust, online exhibition by Yad Vashem

Notes and References

1. http://www.davidamram.com/FinalIngredientReview2.html "The Final Ingredient"
2. http://www.davidamram.com/classical_reviews/final_ingredient_1.html Timeless music (a review of The Final Ingredient: An Opera of the Holocaust in One Act.)
3. http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/arts/musRespo.htm Music in response to the Holocaust
4. http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/180_181cage.html In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)
5. http://www.tonttu.com/projects/page22 Hanns Eisler
6. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/music/detail.php?content=witness Stand Fast (Fest steht)
7. Mordechai Gebirtig His Poetic and Musical Legacy by Gertrude Schneider. Praeger Publishers
8. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/music/detail.php?content=burning Our Town Is Burning
9. The Walls Are Quiet Now Albany Records (2001)
10. http://www.osvaldogolijov.com/nnd1.htm Holocaust – A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz
11. [Imre Kertész|Kertész, Imre]
12. Han-Leon, Chia. "Symphony No.3, op.36 (1976) ". The Flying Inkpot, 9 December 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
13. http://www.musica.cz/comp/haas.htm Pavel Haas – Czech Composer
14. Web site: Will Hoskins, The Book of Knowledge, the Works and the Purpose. Dorothy Hoskins. 2007-07-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928162351/http://www.williambhoskins.org/ . 2007-09-28 . 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. http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/music/vilna_friling.asp?WT.mc_id=wiki Friling – Spring
16. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=307 Rivkele di shabesdike
17. http://www.musica.cz/comp/klein.htm Gideon Klein – Czech Composer
18. http://musicisdivine.tripod.com Wally Kleucker – American Composer
19. Web site: Douglas Knehans: Shoah Requiem. 2008-06-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716132107/http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v1n1/OLR-knehans.htm . 2011-07-16 . Oregon Literary Review, vol. 1, no. 1
20. http://www.musica.cz/comp/krasa.htm Hans Krasa – Czech Composer
21. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=kropinskijozef Jozef Kropinski
22. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=laksszymon Szymon Laks
23. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=289 Aron Liebeskind
24. https://academic.oup.com/book/1843/chapter-abstract/141567976?redirectedFrom=fulltext 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. Web site: Ruth Lomon – Composer and Scholar. 2007-08-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070808011531/http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/ruthlomon/compositions.html . 2007-08-08 . Oratorio: Testimony of Witnesses Web site: World Premier Concert & Live Recording ~ Yom HaShoah 2008. 2007-08-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927130602/http://www.testimonyofwitnesses.org/ . 2007-09-27 .
26. Rischin, Rebecca (2003). For the End of Time : The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. Cornell University Press. .
27. Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project. Serban Nichifor
28. http://www.shoahmusic.com/ Shoah Music by Serban Nichifor
29. http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/Ballor/INART55/pastpapers/ricorda.pdf Luigi Nono's "Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto ad Auschwitz"
30. http://www.thomaspasatieri.com/vpiano.html Letter to Warsaw
31. http://www.penderecki.de/werke/vok/chor_ensemble_orchester/index.html Soli, Choir and Ensemble or Orchestra works
32. http://www.presser.com/Composers/info.cfm?Name=MARTAPTASZYNSKA Holocaust Memorial Cantata (1992)
33. The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process by Ann McCutchan (1999)
34. http://www.jmi.org.uk/suppressedmusic/newsletter/reviews/cd_schulhoff.html Erwin Schulhoff
35. http://claudet.club.fr/Smit/SmitLeoBiography.html Biography Leo Smit
36. Stockhausen: A Biography by Kurtz, Michael. 1992, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber.
37. http://www.leonarda.com/comps.html Karel Svenk
38. The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945 by Władysław Szpilman, Foreword Andrzej Szpilman (2002)
39. http://www.musicofremembrance.org/news/06_sept_17_sparksofglory.htm "Ein Judische Kind"
40. http://www.michael-tippett.com/iocchildeng.htm A Child of Our Time.
41. http://www.viktorullmannfoundation.org.uk/index.html Biography
42. http://www.musicofremembrance.org/news/06_sept_17_sparksofglory.htm "I Wander Through Theresienstadt"
43. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2011/09/05/110905crmu_music_ross "Recovering a Holocaust Opera"
44. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/music/detail.php?content=dachau Dachau Lied
45. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=zipperherbert Herbert Zipper
46. http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/index.php?id=zywulska_krystyna Krystyna Zywulska