Leopold Binental
Leopold Jan Binental (born January 10, 1886 in Kielce ; † April 1, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Polish musicologist and teacher.
Life
Binental studied at the Paris Conservatory and the Schola Cantorum . From 1914 to 1939 he was a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He was also chairman of the Warsaw Music Society from 1916 to 1919 and a member of the board of directors of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute from 1934 to 1939 .
Among other things, he published a monograph on Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw in 1930: Chopin. W 120-ta rocznice urodzin. Documenty i pamiatki (Chopin. On the 120th anniversary of his birth. Documents and memorabilia).
He was born with Janina Binental. Heilpern (born August 1, 1889 in Warsaw, † April 1, 1944 in Auschwitz) married. In 1940 they and their daughter Krystyna Janina fled from occupied Warsaw to France , where they were arrested in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. Both were murdered there on the same day.
Works
- Chopin. Documents and memories from his hometown , translated from Polish by A. von Guttry, German edition edited by the author, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1932
Web links
Individual evidence
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- Halina Goldberg: Music in Chopin's Warsaw , Oxford University Press US, 2008, ISBN 0-19-513073-1 , p. 155
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Binental, Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Binental, Leopold Jan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish musicologist and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kielce |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |