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Chamber Music by Terezín Composers
Bartošová, Marie ; Stříteská, Leona (referee) ; Nedělka, Michal (advisor)
The output of the composers coming from Terezfn has arisen from a very specific background, based on both historical and sociocultural pOints of view. Ghetto Terezin, in its final solution of Jewish issue, stood for the place of an accumulating concentration camp designed as a final solution for the Jewish people living in the nazi-occupied countries. The Jews being kept under the Nazis' control, had to carry out various orders and they were treated in a very cruel way. The music culture originated here absolutely illegally but later, when the international organizations expressed its interest in the situations in concentration camps, the Nazis started to "beautify" ghetto for the committee's eyes. The majority of music works comes from the music orchestras needs to obtain some musical scores which was got rid of by the arrival in the concentration camp. Therefore the new music works are mostly only chamber music or choruses. All these music works are written for the same purpose - to interpret hopes to all auditors - co-prisoners. It was just music, paintings and literature presenting in daily life, which helped prisoners to remain as human as possible. Among the musicians imprisoned in Terezin were for example Karel Ancerl, Karel Berman, Pavel Hass, Hans Krasa, Gideon Klein, Karel Reiner, Rafael...
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