Viktor Ullmann
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Viktor Ullmann Studied with Schoenberg in Vienna and Hába in Prague, where he lived until in 1942 he was interne as a Jew at Terezin. There he composed a 1-act opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis. In 1944 he was transferred to Auschwitz, where he is presumed to have been killed. A former pupil of Schoenberg and a collegue of Zemlinsky in Prague, was the dominant musical figure at the nazist camp of Terezin where for two years he organized cultural life there. |
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