Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann · Arts & Literature
Classical composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis)
1898, Teschen, Austria-Hungary (now Cieszyn, Poland) — 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau
Austria-Hungary · Czechoslovakia
Viktor Ullmann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Classical composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis)
Viktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist, a pupil of Schoenberg, who while imprisoned at the Theresienstadt ghetto made perhaps the most significant contribution of any individual to its musical life — including the opera 'Der Kaiser von Atlantis' — before being murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. Both his parents came from Jewish families who had converted to Catholicism before his birth.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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Classical composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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