A Survivor from Warsaw, Schoenberg
A Survivor from Warsaw, Schoenberg
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Composed By: Arnold Schoenberg
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Voicing: TB unison
Keyword Holocaust
Language: Hebrew
Difficulty: difficult
Country: America, Austria, Poland
Solos: narrator
Instruments: large orchestra
Lyrics: Schoenberg and liturgy
Publisher: Schott
Year Composed/Published: 1947
Timing: 6:30
Tempo: various
First Line: I cannot remember everything. (chorus): Shema Yisroe’l
description: A devastating setting of the composer’s own text describing a round-up of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War. The male chorus sings a twelve-tone row in unison to the text of an ancient Jewish prayer at the end of this miniature oratorio.
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Composer : Arnold Schönberg (13.September.1874 ~ 13.July.1951) Performers : (No data) Schoenberg, a refugee from Nazi anti-Semitism, wrote this six-minute music drama expressing searing outrage over German brutality during the wartime occupation of Poland. It tells of an incident during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto.