SHOAH (HOLOCAUST) REMEMBRANCE

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE SHOAH

• Music for Yom ha Shoah (song) [unspecified voice; 2 violas, piano]

• The Final Ingredient (one-act opera) [12 vocal soloists; SATB chorus, orchestra]

• Requiem-Yizkor (oratorio, 1949) [baritone (cantor), alto; mixed chorus, organ]

• Terezin Ghetto Requiem (cantata) [baritone; string quartet]

• Memoirs from the Holocaust (one-act opera)

• PNIMA...ins innere (chamber opera) [2 male vocal soloists, 2 female vocal soloists; 6 instrumental soloists, string orchestra with 6 double basses, pre-recorded electronic music, 2 mimes, video projections]

• I Never Saw Another Butterfly (1968/1971) [vocal soloist, duet, or 3-part treble chorus; orchestra]

• Songs of Remembrance (1976-79) [soprano, string orchestra]

• Dnevnik Anny Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank) (monopera) [soprano]

• Chant d'espoir des bagnards de Mathausen (1944) (song)

• I never saw another butterfly (song cycle) [low voice; piano]

• Am I a murderer? (solo cantata) [bass; flute, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano]

• Dremlen Feygl (song) [high voice; piano]
• Royt knospn oyfn shney (Red petals in the snow) (song, 1995) [high voice; piano]

• Golgotha (song)

• Ashrei Hagafrur (song) [high voice]

• A Psalm Beyond the Silences (solo version, song) [high voice; piano]
• The Scattered Leaves (solo version, song) [unspecified voice; piano]

• I have taken an oath to remember (song) [high voice]

• Three Songs from the Ghetto (song cycle) [medium voice; piano]

• Requiem for the Victims of Nazi Persecution (oratorio, 2001) [soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone or bass; chorus, orchestra]

• I Never Saw Another Butterfly (song cycle) [soprano; saxophone (or clarinet, or bassoon)]
• Holocaust 1944 (song cycle) [baritone; double bass]
• Daughters (song cycle) [mezzo-soprano; piano trio]
• Fathers (song cycle) [baritone; piano trio]
• The Seed of Dream (2004, song cycle) [baritone; cello, piano]

• The Funeral, from Three Jewish Songs (song, 1947)
  Elegia zydowskich miasteczek (The Elegy of Jewish Villages) (song, 1961)

• Requiem für eine Verfolgte - in memoriam Anne Frank (cantata, 1961) [tenor; string quartet]

• Licht im Dunkel (A Light in the Darkness), Op. 73 (song cycle) [soprano or tenor; piano or orchestra]

• Requiem für einen polnischen Jungen (oratorio, 1998) [mezzo-soprano; boy's choir, SATB chorus, chamber orchestra, organ]

• Songs of Remembrance (song cycle) [soprano, mezzo-soprano or contralto, tenor, baritone or bass; oboe, English horn, piano]

• Annotations of Auschwitz (cantata) [soprano; flute (doubling bass flute), trumpet, horn, violin, violoncello, piano]

• The Village (opera) [treble, dramatic soprano, lyric soprano, mezzo-soprano, 2 tenors, 2 baritones, 2 unspecified male vocalists; mixed chorus, orchestra]

• Requiem para Edith Stein (monopera) [soprano]

• Sophie's Choice (opera)

• Letter to Warsaw (song cycle, 2003) [soprano; orchestra]

• Dies irae (cantata) [soprano, tenor, baritone or bass; mixed chorus, orchestra]

• Holocaust Memorial Cantata (cantata, 1992) [3 vocal soloists; mixed chorus; percussion, harp, string orchestra]

• Choose life! Uvacharta bachayim (oratorio) [soprano, treble soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone; SATB chorus, SSA chorus, Gregorian chant choir, organ, timpani -or- chamber orchestra]

• Lady Lazarus (1992) [soprano a cappella]

• Shemà, Five Poems of Holocaust Survivor Primo Levi (song cycle) [soprano; flute, clarinet, cello, piano]
• Ash un Flamen, Five Yiddish Songs of the Holocaust (song cycle) [mezzo-soprano; piano]

• Camp Songs (song cycle) [medium voice; violin, cello, double bass, clarinet, piano]

• Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor "Babi-Yar", Op. 113 [bass; bass chorus, orchestra]

• The Lady of the Castle (opera) [3 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 baritones, 1 bass; chorus, piano, cello, clarinet, harp]

• Voices from Terezin (song cycle) [soprano; string quartet]

• A Little Miracle (monodrama) [mezzo-soprano; chamber orchestra]

• Jacob's Room (monopera) [soprano; string quartet, video images]

• A Polish Quarter, Paris: Dimly Lit, No. 9 from Ladies of their Nights and Days [mezzo; piano]

• Six Lives of Jack McBride (1993, song cycle) [tenor; violin, horn in F, piano]

• The Child in the Hole (scena, 2002) [soprano solo; clarinet]

• Sh'ma (oratorio, 1995) [tenor solo; chorus, obbligato piano, orchestra]

• The Song of Terezin (song cycle) [mezzo-soprano; mixed chorus, children's chorus, orchestra]

• Mayn Tfile (song) [high voice]
• Yidn Zingen "Ani Mamin" (Jews are Singing "Ani Mamin") (song) [high voice]
• Merciful God (song) [high voice]
• Unter Dayne Vayse Shtern (song) [high voice]
• Ergetz Vayt (song) [high voice]

• The Survivor (cycle of 6 songs) [mezzo-soprano, piano]

• Windsongs (song cycle) [medium voice; piano]

• Tsigaynerlid (song)

• Poupata (song) [bass; piano]
• 7 Lieder (song cycle) [baritone; piano]
• 6 Lieder (song cycle)
• 3 Lieder (song cycle)

• Čtyři pisně na slova Čínské poezie (Lieder nach Worten chinesischer Poesie - Songs on Chinese Poetry) (song cycle, 1943/1944)) [bass, piano]
• (Sieben Lieder im Volkston - Seven Celakovský folk songs), Op. 18 (song cycle, 1939/1940) [high voice; piano]

• Smrt Kmotricka (opera)
• Tri Vlasky Deda Vseveda (opera)
• Písen Svobody, Op. 41a (song) [baritone; piano]
• Zena-Moje Stestí, Op. 41b (song) [baritone; piano]

• 2 Madrigale (1942, 1943) [2 sopranos, 1 alto, 1 tenor; 1 bass]
• Tři písně (Drei Lieder - Two Songs), Op. 1 (song cycle, 1940) [high voice; piano]

• Tři písně (Drei Lieder - Three Songs) (song cycle) [baritone; clarinet, viola, cello]
• Brundibár (The Bumble Bee) (opera) [baritone; children]
• Je to smich nebo plac? My vime (song) [unspecified voice; piano, chamber ensemble]

• Silence (Passacaglia), Op. 11 No. 7 (song, 1939) [unspecified voice; piano]

• Mogen Owaus [soprano, baritone; chorus, organ]
• Finale from Cantata Judaica [tenor; male chorus]
• Uv'tzeil Knofecho [baritone; string quartet]
• Die Nicht Gewesenen [unspecified voice; piano]

• Kleine prélude van Ravel (song, 1938) [mezzo-soprano; piano]
• La mort (song, 1938) [soprano,mezzo-soprano; piano]

• Ein Judisches Kind (song) [soprano; piano]

• Drei Lieder, Op. 37 (song cycle, 1942) [baritone; piano]
• Hölderlin-Lieder (song cycle, 1943) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Der Mensch und sein Tag, Op. 47 (song, 1943) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Abendphantasie (song, 1944) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Herbst (song, 1944) [soprano; string trio]
• Wendla im Garten (song, 1944) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Zwei Lieder der Tröstung (song cycle, 1943) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Immer inmitten (song, 1943/44) [mezzo-soprano, piano]
• Brezulinka (Drei jiddische Lieder), Op. 53 (song cycle, 1944) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Ein Lied "Little Cakewalk" (song, 1943) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Chanson des enfants francaises (song cycle, 1943) [unspecified voice; piano]
• Der zerbrochene Krug, Op. 36 (opera, 1942)
• Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder die Tod-Verweigerung, Op. 49b (one-act opera, 1943)

• V'lirushalaym [baritone; string quartet]

WORKS WITH SPOKEN SOLOS

• Kol Nidre, Op. 39 (oratorio) [narrator; chorus, orchestra]
• Ode to Napoleon (Buonaparte), Op. 41 (concert piece) [narrator; 2 violins, viola, violoncello, piano
• A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (song) [narrator; chorus, orchestra]

• Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (concert piece, 1944) [narrator; orchestra]

WEB LINKS OF INTEREST

• TEREZIN: Music Behind Walls
• le ghetto de Theresienstadt
• Music of the Ghettos and Camps
• USHMM: Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection
• THE STRANGE PASSENGER
• Terezin (Theresienstadt)
• Music of Remembrance
• Terezin Chamber Music Foundation
• musica reanimata
• arbeitsgruppe exilmusik
• BRUNDIBAR: Kinder und Jugendkultur Projekt
• Viktor Ullmann
• Viktor Ullmann Homepage
• The Gideon Klein Foundation
• Leo Smit Foundation
• René Leibowitz
• Szymon Laks
• Composers of the Holocaust