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Chapters: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp Victims, Pavel Haas, Robert Desnos, Fritz Weiss, Emil Kolben, Friedrich Münzer, Max Herrmann, Moriz Seeler, Alfred Flatow, Gustav Flatow, Siegfried Translateur, Georg Alexander Pick, Abraham Buschke, Alois Rašín, Julie Wolfthorn, Alexander Beer, Hans Leopold Meyer, Karl Herxheimer, Augustin Schramm, Arthur Mahler, Rudolf Karel, Otto Blumenthal, Alfred Tauber. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 66. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pavel Haas (21 June 1899 17 October 1944) was a Czech composer who was killed in the Holocaust. He is an exponent of Leo Janáek´s compositional school. In his compositions he used also elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not large, he is notable particularly for his song cycles and string quartets. Haas was born in Brno, into a Jewish family. His father Zikmund was a shoemaker by trade, his mother Olga (née Epstein) was of Russian origin (born in Odessa). Haas began his formal musical education there at the age of 14. He studied composition at the Conservatory from 1919 to 1921 under Jan Kunc and Vilém Petrelka. This was followed by two years of study in the master class of the composer Leo Janáek. Janáek was far and away Haas' most influential teacher and Haas, in turn, proved to be Janáek's best student. In 1935 he married Soa Jakobson, former wife of Russian linguist Roman Jakobson. Of the more than 50 works written during the next 20 years or so, only 18 were given opus numbers by the self-critical composer himself. While still working in his father's business, he wrote musical works of all kinds, including symphonic and choral works, lieder, chamber music, scores for cinema and theatre and the opera arlatán (The Charlatan), first performed in Brno to great acclaim in April 1938. In 1941, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2383718 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Desnos (4 July 1900, Paris - 8 June 1945), was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day. His last name is pronounced "Deznoss." Robert Desnos was a son of a café owner. He was born in Paris on 4 July 1900. Desnos attended commercial college, and started work as a clerk. After that he worked as a literary columnist for the newspaper Paris-Soir. The first poems by Desnos to appear in print were published in 1917 in La Tribune des Jeunes (Youth's Tribune) and in 1919 in the avant-garde review, Le Trait d?union (The hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine Littérature. ... Read more

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Title: Going for Baroque in the twentieth century: from Desnos to Brossard.
Author: Katharine Conley
Publication: Quebec Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: American Council for Quebec Studies
Volume: 31Page: 12-23

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 640 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Landscape.(Poem)
Author: Robert Desnos
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 188Issue: 1Page: 62(3)

Article Type: Poem

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