Elkan Bauer
Elkan Bauer was an Austrian composer and friend and contemporary of Johann Strauss II born in Nikolsburg, on April 4, 1852.
Elkan Bauer
- Born
- 1852 · Mikulov.
- Died
- 1942 · Theresienstadt concentration camp.
- Nationality
- Austria · Cisleithania · Austrian Empire
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages
- German
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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.
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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. 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thanks to a cousin, who had fled with his family to England before the Kristallnacht, there survived two scores of his unpublished musical waltz ("Aeroplane waltz" and "Diana waltz").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.
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Elkan Bauer died in 1942 at Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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- 1.Trauungsbuch Wien Stadttempel, Band D, Nr. 1197 (Faksimile bei FamilySearch, kostenlose Registrierung erforderlich); Elkan Bauer in der Datenbank des Terezín Memorial. Die Herkunft des häufig angegebenen Geburtstags 4. April 1852 ist unklar.
- 2.Rainer Mayerhofer. Konzert: Walzer-Uraufführung eines Wiener Holocaust-Opfers in Lecce. Wiener Zeitung. 1999-05-14.
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