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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stilled voices on the new disc belonged to Ervin Schulhoff, a Prague- born composer and associate of George Grosz and Paul Klee, who died at age 48 in 1942 in the Wulzburg camp; Vitezslava Kapralova, a Czech-born pianist and conducting student of Charles Munch, who, only 25, perished in 1940 of tuberculosis while attempting to get to America; and Gideon Klein, another Czech composer, who died in 1945 at the age of 25 after trips to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Furstengrubbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Them, Time Ran Out | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...most accomplished composer of the three was Schulhoff, whose String Quartet No. 1 and two other chamber works, which date from 1924-25, reveal the kind of craftsmanship and imagination to be expected from a student of Reger and Debussy. The quartet in particular is outstanding, combining the rhythmic snap of Bartok with the plaintive melodic lines of Kodaly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Them, Time Ran Out | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

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