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Ervín Schulhoff

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Ervín Schulhoff · Arts & Literature

What

Classical composer and pianist

When

1894, Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) — 1942, Wülzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Where

Bohemia · Germany

Biography

Ervín Schulhoff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Classical composer and pianist

How & why

Ervín Schulhoff was a Czech composer and pianist who blended jazz, Dadaism and the avant-garde with classical form, among the most inventive figures of interwar European music. Born to a German-Jewish family in Prague, he was persecuted as a Jew and died in the Wülzburg internment camp in Nazi Germany in 1942.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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Classical composer and pianist

1894

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music