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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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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Krzysztof Penderecki's Dies Irae (also known as the "Auschwitz Oratorio") is a well known work written in memory of the Holocaust.

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Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw depicts the story of a survivor from Warsaw's ghetto during the Second World War.

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The Polish composer Władysław Szpilman survived the Holocaust. The film The Pianist is based on his life.

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References

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  1. ^ "The Final Ingredient", The New York Times, April 12, 1965 (Retrieved 7 December 2007)
  2. ^ 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)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Music in response to the Holocaust (Retrieved July 7, 2007)
  4. ^ In the Name of the Holocaust (1942)
  5. ^ Hanns Eisler Archived 2013-08-23 at the Wayback Machine Hanns Eisler Project (Retrieved July 16, 2007)
  6. ^ Stand Fast (Fest steht) Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)
  7. ^ Mordechai Gebirtig His Poetic and Musical Legacy by Gertrude Schneider. Praeger Publishers ISBN 0-275-96657-7
  8. ^ Our Town Is Burning Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection (Retrieved on 30 July 2007)
  9. ^ The Walls Are Quiet Now Albany Records (2001)
  10. ^ Holocaust – A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz Golijov homepage (Retrieved on 16 July 2007)
  11. ^ Kertész, Imre. "Górecki's Symphony no.3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine". Le Chercheur de traces. Retrieved on 16 July 2007.
  12. ^ Han-Leon, Chia. "Symphony No.3, op.36 (1976) Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine". The Flying Inkpot, 9 December 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
  13. ^ Pavel Haas – Czech Composer Archived 2007-04-14 at the Wayback Machine Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
  14. ^ Dorothy Hoskins. "Will Hoskins, The Book of Knowledge, the Works and the Purpose". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-30. 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.
  15. ^ Friling – Spring by Shmerke Kaczerginski in an online exhibition by Yad Vashem
  16. ^ Rivkele di shabesdike Archived 2007-12-26 at the Wayback Machine Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  17. ^ Gideon Klein – Czech Composer Archived 2005-04-03 at the Wayback Machine Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
  18. ^ Wally Kleucker – American Composer In Remembrance of the Holocaust Victims for mixed chorus and organ
  19. ^ "Douglas Knehans: Shoah Requiem". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-06-24. Oregon Literary Review, vol. 1, no. 1
  20. ^ Hans Krasa – Czech Composer Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Czech Music Information Centre (Retrieved Juli 17, 2007)
  21. ^ Jozef Kropinski Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  22. ^ Szymon Laks, Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  23. ^ Aron Liebeskind Archived 2007-12-26 at the Wayback Machine Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  24. ^ Where Is the Holocaust in All This? György Ligeti and the Dialectics of Life and Work (1942)
  25. ^ Songs of Remembrance (1996) Song cycle on poems of the Holocaust; soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass-baritone, piano, oboe and oboe d'amore. "Ruth Lomon – Composer and Scholar". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2007-08-07. Oratorio: Testimony of Witnesses "World Premier Concert & Live Recording ~ Yom HaShoah 2008". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
  26. ^ Rischin, Rebecca (2003). For the End of Time : The Story of the Messiaen Quartet. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-4136-6.
  27. ^ Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project. Serban Nichifor
  28. ^ Shoah Music by Serban Nichifor
  29. ^ Luigi Nono's "Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto ad Auschwitz", Penn State School of Music (Retrieved 8 July 2008) [dead link‍]
  30. ^ Letter to Warsaw, Thomas Pasatieri homepage (Retrieved July 17, 2007)
  31. ^ Soli, Choir and Ensemble or Orchestra works Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine Penderecki homepagem (Retrieved May 24, 2007)
  32. ^ Holocaust Memorial Cantata (1992) Archived 2007-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
  33. ^ The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process by Ann McCutchan (1999) ISBN 0-19-512707-2
  34. ^ Erwin Schulhoff Archived 2006-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved July 7, 2007)
  35. ^ Biography Leo Smit Archived 2007-07-05 at archive.today (Retrieved 29 October 2007)
  36. ^ Stockhausen: A Biography by Kurtz, Michael. 1992, translated by Richard Toop. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-14323-7
  37. ^ Karel Svenk Classical Composers (S) (Retrieved 28 January 2008)
  38. ^ The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945 by Władysław Szpilman, Foreword Andrzej Szpilman (2002) ISBN 0-312-31135-4
  39. ^ "Ein Judische Kind" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  40. ^ A Child of Our Time. Archived 2007-09-11 at the Wayback Machine Michael Tippett's web site (Retrieved July 15, 2007)
  41. ^ Biography Archived 2005-09-21 at the Wayback Machine Viktor Ullmann Foundation (Retrieved July 15, 2007)
  42. ^ "I Wander Through Theresienstadt" Music of Remembrance (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  43. ^ "Recovering a Holocaust Opera", Archived 2011-12-29 at the Wayback Machine Alex Ross review of The Passenger, The New Yorker (Retrieved 14 August 2013)
  44. ^ Dachau Lied Archived 2011-10-29 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved July 7, 2007)
  45. ^ Herbert Zipper Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
  46. ^ Krystyna Zywulska Music during the Holocaust (Retrieved 28 October 2007)
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