Lost music of the Holocaust : the story of recovering the music created in the camps
Lotoro, Francesco2023
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For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stalin's death in 1953 when thousands of Soviet prisoners were released, Lotoro pieces together the human stories of survivors whose only salvation was their love of music. Across three decades of relentless investigation, his findings are extraordinary and historically important. Lotoro unearthed over eight thousand unpublished works of music, ten thousand documents (microfilms, diaries, notebooks, and recordings on phonographic recordings), as well as locating and interviewing many survivors who in a previous life had been trained musicians and composers.
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Author:
Lotoro, Francesco, author
Imprint:
London : Headline, 2023.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781472297792 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
781.62924781.629 LOTO781.629240904
Language:
English
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BRN:
2379888