Zikmund Schul

Schul was born in Chemnitz, Germany, into an Eastern European Jewish family, and grew up in Kassel. Only little is known about his life. He moved to Prague in 1933. In 1937 he started to study composition in Prague, where he was a pupil of Alois Hába. During his time in Prague he became a friend of Viktor Ullmann. In Prague he started also to archive a collection of synagogal-songs from the synagogue of Prague (under the direction of Salomon Lieben). Schul married Olga Stern in 1941, and both were deported to Terezin on 30 November 1941. Schul died in Theresienstadt concentration camp from tuberculosis.

• Opus — Date — English title — Remarks • op 9b Nr.1 — 1937 — Die Nischt – Gewesenen — Song for Alto and Piano • - — 1941 — Mogen Ovos — Organ and Choir • - — 1941 — Fuge in E — Piano • - — 1941-42 — 2 Chassidic Dances — Viola and Cello • - — 1942 — Zaddik — String Quartet • - — 1942 — Cantata Judaïca Op. 13 (finale) — Tenor and Choir • - — 1942 — Ki Tavo al Ha'aretz — Children's Choir • - — 1942 — Uv’tzeil K’nofecho — String Quartet • - — 1942 — V'l'Yerushalayim — Voice and String Quartet arrangiert nach Vilem Zrzavy • - — 1943 — Schiksal — Song for Alt, Flute, Viola and Violoncello from "Dunkle Klänge" • - — 1943 — Duo — Violin and Viola • - — - — Phrase from a piano sonata