Elkan Bauer
Elkan Bauer (born April 4, 1852 in Nikolsburg , Moravia ; † September 20, 1942 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian composer and songwriter.
Life
Elkan Bauer could neither read nor write notes, but the melodies he whistled were written down and played at open-air concerts and in the Volksgarten café in Vienna. He was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and murdered there in the same year. His granddaughter, the Auschwitz survivor Elisa Springer , wrote the book “The Silence of the Living” , and the Fondazione Elisa Springer named after her administers Bauer's estate.
His family discovered two waltz scores, Diana and Aeroplan , which were premiered in 1999 by the symphony orchestra of the Province of Lecce in the presence of the then Austrian ambassador in Rome, Günter Birbaum . The concert evening had the motto "Against forgetting".
literature
- Elisa Springer : Il silenzio dei vivi, all'ombra di Auschwitz, un racconto di morte e di resurrezione . Marsilio Verlag, Venice 1997, ISBN 978-88-317-6602-9 . PDF
- The silence of the living: in the shadow of Auschwitz, a tale of death and resurrection . Foreword by Marina Beelke. Authorized translation Rainer Mayerhoer, Melina Beelke. Edited by Siegfried Heinrichs . Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-928254-47-2 .
See also
Web links
- Orpheus Trust, Vienna. Association for the research and publication of forgotten and displaced art
- Sound document: Diana waltz
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Mayerhofer: Concert: World premiere of waltz by a Viennese Holocaust victim in Lecce. In: Wiener Zeitung. May 14, 1999, accessed August 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauer, Elkan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nikolsburg , Moravia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1942 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt concentration camp |