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

OpusDateEnglish TitleRemarks
op 9b Nr.11937Die Nischt – GewesenenSong for Alto and Piano
-1941Mogen OvosOrgan and Choir
-1941Fuge in EPiano
-1941-422 Chassidic DancesViola and Cello
-1942ZaddikString Quartet
-1942Cantata Judaïca Op. 13 (finale)Tenor and Choir
-1942Ki Tavo al Ha'aretzChildren's Choir
-1942Uv’tzeil K’nofechoString Quartet
-1942V'l'YerushalayimVoice and String Quartet arrangiert nach Vilem Zrzavy
-1943SchiksalSong for Alt, Flute, Viola and Violoncello from "Dunkle Klänge"
-1943DuoViolin 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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