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31. Paul Seelig

    Paul Seelig 1876

    101242 Specialist in music of the Dutch East Indies Paul Seelig was born in Dortmund in 1876, the oldest in a family of seven children. The family lived in Breda, in the Netherlands, where his …

32. Géza Frid

    Géza Frid 1904

    100023 That famous Hungarian Dutchman Géza Frid was born on January 25, 1904, in Máramarossziget, a small town in former Hungary (now Rumania). At the age of four, his mother gave him piano lessons, …

33. Sem Dresden

    Sem Dresden 1881

    100021 A pragmatic idealist Sem Dresden was born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family originating from the Prussian town of Gdansk, today a city in Poland. Both his father and grandfather were diamond …

34. Nico Richter

    Nico Richter 1915

    100016 Concise, vigorous and distinctive Nico Max Richter was born in Amsterdam on December 2nd 1915, the second of three children and the only son of the dentist Izaak Richter and his wife Sara Manheim …

35. Paul Hermann

    Paul Hermann 1902

    100027 With a cello through Europe Paul (Pál) Hermann was born on March 27, 1902, in a well-to-do neighborhood in Buda. The amusing story goes that young Paul only would practice the piano if he …

36. Zoltán Székely

    Zoltán Székely 1903

    101244 Violin Virtuoso from Budapest Zoltán Székely was born on December 8, 1903 in Kocs, Hungary. His father, Laszló Székely, was a physician, and because of his work the family moved from time to …

37. Simon Gokkes

    Simon Gokkes 1897

    100025 Opera conductor and composer of Jewish liturgical music Simon Gokkes was born in Amsterdam on March 21, 1897. David Gokkes, his father, was a peddler from Blokzijl, a harbor town in the …

38. Wilhelm Rettich

    Wilhelm Rettich 1892

    101240 A Survival Artist He was born in Leipzig in 1892, the son of Isidor Rettich, a merchant and Rosa Idelsohn. His parents wanted him to become a doctor, but he knew early on that music was his …

39. Mischa Hillesum

    Mischa Hillesum 1920

    101236 Angelic child prodigy Mischa Hillesum was raised in an unconventional environment in Deventer. In the family home, certainly not typically Dutch with its exotic interior and bohemian …

40. Ignace Lilien

    Ignace Lilien 1897

    100747 Cosmopolitan in a boundless musical universe Ignace Lilien was born on May 29, 1897, in multi-cultural Lemberg, at that time an Austrian city where Poles, Ukrainians and Jews were the largest …