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Terezin Collection (KARAS)
Contents: KOHN: Praeludium; GRUNFELD-SCHUL: Uv'tzeil K'nofecho; LEDEC: Gavotte; DOMAZLICKY: Song Without Words. These four pieces were composed and originally performed during WW II in the concentration camp in Terezin in the occupied Czechoslavakia between 1942 and 1944. As most of the incarcerated musicians in Terezin, the violist and flutist, Victor Kohn, participated very actively in several ensembles in Terezin. For the lack of sheet music, he enriched the repertoire by his only preserved composition, the PRAELUDIUM, included here. Nothing is known about the author of the melody to UV'TZEIL K'NOFECHO, except that his last name was Grunfeld. A young composer from Kassel (Germany), Zikmund Schul, arranged the tune for string quartet. Before the war, Egon Ledec, was the associate concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic. He wrote the Cheerful GAVOTTE, in the semi classical style for his own string quartet. Like the majority of his colleagues, Ledec became a victim of the Auschwitz gas chambers. Of the four composers presented in this collection, Frantisek Domazlicky is the sole survivor. After the war, he completed his studies at the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Musical Arts as a violinist and composer of symphonic music. His charming SONG WITHOUT WORDS, is the only one of his Terezin output which is regularly performed.
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