Pavel Haas
Pavel Haas · Arts & Literature
Classical composer
1899, Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) — 1944, Auschwitz concentration camp
Czechoslovakia
Pavel Haas is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Classical composer
Pavel Haas was a Czech composer, a pupil of Leoš Janáček, whose works blended Moravian folk elements, jazz and modernism. Imprisoned in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto, he continued composing there before being deported and murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. He was a Jew and a victim of the Holocaust.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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Classical composer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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