Erwin Schulhoff
Composer of the Week is broadcast on Radio 3 at 12pm, Monday to Friday. Programmes in January are:
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10-14 January Lully
17-21 January Liszt
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31 January – 4 February Elgar
rwin Schulhoff, born in Prague in 1894, was a close contemporary of Martin, a fellow Czech, and Milhaud and Poulenc in France. They were all working at the same time and wrote a considerable amount of music of similar quality. So why are these other names fairly well known, while Schulhoff isn’t? The sad truth is that he was silenced, dying in a Nazi prison camp in 1942, and subsequently unjustly forgotten by musical history. It was a similar story for his fellow Jewish Czech composers Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein, who were in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto where at least there was the opportunity to
