Forbidden Music Regained


Leo Smit Stichting
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The pariahs of the camps (in the form of a suite)

By Israel Olman

genre
Orchestra
year
1946

Details

23 August 1946

score and piano reduction

Images

OlmanThePariahsoftheCamps.jpg
OlmanThePariahsoftheCamps.jpg

About Israel Olman

(08/17/1883 - 05/08/1968)
Israel Olman

Up until World War II, Israel J. Olman had been a celebrated choral conductor and composer. He wrote synagogal music and also music for socialist choirs, to be performed at major singing competitions. His fame, in addition to the fact that he was married to a Catholic woman, offered him some protection during the war. In the post-war years his reputation as a composer diminished rapidly, creating financial difficulties. The world had changed and his musical idiom had become outdated.

by Pauline Micheels