This is a list of composers who have written music about the Holocaust, or who were directly influenced by the holocaust. This list is alphabetical by name.
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Chava Alberstein David Amram (1930– )"The Final Ingredient", The New York Times, April 12, 1965 (Retrieved 7 December 2007)Timeless music (a review of The Final Ingredient: An Opera of the Holocaust in One Act.) The Chronicle (Kansas City, Kansas), March, 1997 (Retrieved on 7 December 2007)
B Dawid Beigelman (1887–1945) Karel BermanMusic in response to the Holocaust (Retrieved July 7, 2007) David Botwinik (1920–2022)
C John Cage (1912–1992)In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)
E Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)Hanns Eisler Hanns Eisler Project (Retrieved July 16, 2007)
F Grigory Frid (1915–2012) Erich FrostStand Fast (Fest steht) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)
G Mordechai Gebirtig (1877–1942)Mordechai Gebirtig His Poetic and Musical Legacy by Gertrude Schneider. Praeger Publishers Our Town Is Burning United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007) Sylvia Glickman (1932–2006)The Walls Are Quiet Now Albany Records (2001) Hirsh Glick Osvaldo Golijov (1960– )Holocaust – A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz Golijov homepage (Retrieved on 16 July 2007) Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)Kertész, Imre. "Górecki's Symphony no.3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' ". Le Chercheur de traces. Retrieved on 16 July 2007.Han-Leon, Chia. "Symphony No.3, op.36 (1976) ". The Flying Inkpot, 9 December 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2007. Olivier Greif (1950–2000)
H Pavel Haas (1899–1944)Pavel Haas – Czech Composer Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007) Marilyn Herman (1960– ) "Rozsa's Wish" and "The Angel of Chomutov" Michael Horvit William B. Hoskins (1917–1997) American composer, pacifist, conscientious objector in World War II, wrote 8-movement Requiem for the Six Million in 1960s. Performed by chorus from local synagogue and Unitarian congregation with brass, percussion, organ and piano, Jacksonville, Florida USA, 1965. Text by Charles White McGehee, Unitarian minister.
J Wilfred Josephs
K Shmerke KaczerginskiFriling – Spring by Shmerke Kaczerginski in an online exhibition by Yad Vashem Peysakh KaplanRivkele di shabesdike Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007) Ståle Kleiberg (1958– ) Gideon Klein (1919–1945)Gideon Klein – Czech Composer Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007) Wally Kleucker (1947– )Wally Kleucker – American Composer In Remembrance of the Holocaust Victims for mixed chorus and organ Douglas Knehans (1957– ) Oregon Literary Review, vol. 1, no. 1 Józef Koffler Max Kowalski (1882–1956)
Hans Krása (1899–1944)Hans Krasa – Czech Composer Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved Juli 17, 2007) Jozef KropinskiJozef Kropinski Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007) Aleksander Kulisiewicz (1918–1982) Meyer Kupferman (1926–2003)
L Szymon LaksSzymon Laks, Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007) Aron LiebeskindAron Liebeskind Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007) György Ligeti (1923–2006)Where Is the Holocaust in All This? György Ligeti and the Dialectics of Life and Work (1942) Ruth LomonSongs of Remembrance (1996) Song cycle on poems of the Holocaust; soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass-baritone, piano, oboe and oboe d'amore. Oratorio: Testimony of Witnesses
M Mesías Maiguashca (born 1938) See (1997) Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)Rischin, Rebecca (2003). For the End of Time : The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. Cornell University Press. . Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) Oskar Morawetz
N Lior Navok (born 1971) Șerban Nichifor (born 1954)Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project. Serban NichiforShoah Music by Serban Nichifor Luigi Nono 1924–1990)Luigi Nono's "Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto ad Auschwitz", Penn State School of Music (Retrieved 8 July 2008)
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P Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945)Letter to Warsaw, Thomas Pasatieri homepage (Retrieved July 17, 2007) Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)Soli, Choir and Ensemble or Orchestra works Penderecki homepagem (Retrieved May 24, 2007) Dmitri Pokrass Yehuda Poliker Marta PtaszynskaHolocaust Memorial Cantata (1992)
R Shulamit RanThe Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process by Ann McCutchan (1999) Steve Reich
S Salem, band Simon Sargon Arnold Schoenberg Erwin SchulhoffErwin Schulhoff (Retrieved July 7, 2007) William Schuman
Ronald Senator Dmitri Shostakovich Leo SmitBiography Leo Smit (Retrieved 29 October 2007) Ben Steinberg Karlheinz StockhausenStockhausen: A Biography by Kurtz, Michael. 1992, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. Karel Švenk (1917–1945)Karel Svenk Classical Composers (S) (Retrieved 28 January 2008) Władysław SzpilmanThe Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945 by Władysław Szpilman, Foreword Andrzej Szpilman (2002)
T Carlo Taube"Ein Judische Kind" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007) Sir Michael TippettA Child of Our Time. Michael Tippett's web site (Retrieved July 15, 2007) Mikis Theodorakis Marcel Tyberg
U Viktor UllmannBiography Viktor Ullmann Foundation (Retrieved July 15, 2007)
W Ilse Weber"I Wander Through Theresienstadt" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007) Mieczysław Weinberg"Recovering a Holocaust Opera", Alex Ross review of The Passenger, The New Yorker (Retrieved 14 August 2013) László Weiner (1916–1944) Lazar Weiner
Z Herbert ZipperDachau Lied (Retrieved July 7, 2007)Herbert Zipper Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007) John Zorn Krystyna ŻywulskaKrystyna Zywulska Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
See also The Holocaust in the arts and popular culture
References
External links Music of the Holocaust, online exhibition by Yad Vashem