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Elkan Bauer was an Austrian composer and friend and contemporary of Johann Strauss II born in Nikolsburg, on April 4, 1852.

Biography

Despite being unable to neither read nor write music, he whistled melodies which were then transcribed and performed in the outdoor kiosks of Vienna. After being taken prisoner by the Germans in 1942, the Nazis burned all his possessions including his house, his documents and his scores. He was killed in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt at the age of ninety, on September 20, 1942.[1] Miraculously, thanks to a cousin, who had fled with his family to England before the Kristallnacht, there survived two scores of his unpublished musical waltz ("Aeroplane waltz" and "Diana waltz"). The writer Elisa Springer, his maternal granddaughter, who wrote a book, Das Schweigen der Lebenden (The Silence of the Living), preserved these scores.[1]

References

External links

• MP3 recording of Diana Waltz

На других языках

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[de] Elkan Bauer

Elkan Bauer (geboren 5. Juni 1852[1] in Nikolsburg, Mähren; gestorben 20. September 1942 im KZ Theresienstadt) war ein österreichischer Komponist und Liedermacher.

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- [en] Elkan Bauer

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[es] Elkan Bauer

Elkan Bauer (Nikolsburg (que formaba entonces parte del Imperio austrohúngaro), 4 de abril de 1852 — Theresienstadt, 20 de septiembre de 1942), fue un compositor austríaco, víctima del nacionalsocialismo.

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