Zikmund Schul

Zikmund Schul (11 January 1916 – 2 June 1944) was a German Jewish composer.

Life

Schul was born in Chemnitz, Germany, into an Eastern European Jewish family, and grew up in Kassel. Only little is known about his life. He moved to Prague in 1933. In 1937 he started to study composition in Prague, where he was a pupil of Alois Hába. During his time in Prague he became a friend of Viktor Ullmann. In Prague he started also to archive a collection of synagogal-songs from the synagogue of Prague (under the direction of Salomon Lieben). Schul married Olga Stern in 1941, and both were deported to Terezin on 30 November 1941. Schul died in Theresienstadt concentration camp[1] from tuberculosis.

Worklist

Opus Date English Title Remarks
op 9b Nr.1 1937 Die Nischt – Gewesenen Song for Alto and Piano
- 1941 Mogen Ovos Organ and Choir
- 1941 Fuge in E Piano
- 1941-42 2 Chassidic Dances Viola and Cello
- 1942 Zaddik String Quartet
- 1942 Cantata Judaïca Op. 13 (finale) Tenor and Choir
- 1942 Ki Tavo al Ha'aretz Children's Choir
- 1942 Uv’tzeil K’nofecho String Quartet
- 1942 V'l'Yerushalayim Voice and String Quartet arrangiert nach Vilem Zrzavy
- 1943 Schiksal Song for Alt, Flute, Viola and Violoncello from "Dunkle Klänge"
- 1943 Duo Violin and Viola
- - Phrase from a piano sonata

Literature

  • Initiative Hans Krása in Hamburg, Germany: Komponisten in Theresienstadt ISBN 3-00-005164-3

Recordings

The whole music written in Concentration Camps are contained in the CD-Encyclopedia KZ MUSIK created by Francesco Lotoro

References

  1. ^ Rothkirchen, Livia (2005). The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust. University of Nebraska Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-8032-3952-4.


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