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Tanks of the US 11th Armored Division entering the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945. The title of the songs is "The Ballad of Mauthausen" and contained four arias: [4] "Άσμα ασμάτων [Asma Asmaton]" (Song of Songs) with verses inspired to a degree by erotic lyrics from the biblical Song of Songs, [4] and includes the lyrics Τι ...
Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. [2][3] The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St ...
Jan 28, 2019 · Today’s Noteworthy song is a compilation called the “Mauthausen Trilogy” or “The Ballad of Mauthausen”, written by the poet Iakovos Kambanellis and composed by Mikis Theodorakis. Kambanellis himself was a prisoner of Mauthausen concentration camp until its liberation in May 1945.
- I. Music on Command
- II. Music Initiated by The Prisoners
- III. Conclusions
- Notes
Almost every camp inmate was inescapably confronted in one way or another with music in the course of his or her camp imprisonment. This took place mainly within the officially prescribed framework of daily life in the camps: singing was required and there were camp orchestras; but music was also played over loudspeakers. Besides these occasions, c...
Music on command was one thing. But musical activities resulting from the prisoners’ own initiative took on quite a different significance, whether the performance was for the musicians themselves or for their fellow-prisoners.Such musical experiences, it is true, sometimes awakened memories so painful that they resulted in depression and resignati...
The preceding examples – and the list could easily be extended – demonstrate impressively that music played an integral part in the daily life of the Nazi concentration camps. Daily life in these camps was full of contradictions and gave rise to specific forms of behavior, rituals, normative and value systems which even today remain largely unstudi...
See Fania Fénelon, Playing for Time: The Musicians of Auschwitz, transl. from the French by Judith Landry (New York, 1977). Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay for the film Playing for Time(Columbia...See Guido Fackler, “Des Lagers Stimme” - Musik im KZ. Alltag und Häftlingskultur in den Konzentrationslagern 1933 bis 1936. Mit einer Darstellung der weiteren Entwicklung bis 1945 und einer Biblio-...See Martin Weinmann, ed., Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem (CCP). Mit Beiträgen von Anne Kaiser und Ursula Krause-Schmitt (Frankfurt a. M., 1990); Gudrun Schwarz: Die nationalsozialistischen...See Guido Fackler, “Des Lagers Stimme”- Musik im KZ, 130-151 (1933-1936), 157-161 (camp choirs), 329-340 (1936-1945); Guido Fackler, “Lied und Gesang im KZ,” Lied und populäre Kultur/ Song and Popu...- Guido Fackler
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Feb 18, 2022 · Mikis Theodorakis-Iakovos Kambanellis: MAUTHAUSEN – The cantata in a new interpretation with male voice and cello. “I closed my eyes, I leaned back and began to reflect...it was August, it was 1945, a new season was beginning...” (ending of the autobiographical novel, Mauthausen, Kedros Publishers). The iconic cantata Mauthausen, with ...
Jan 27, 2018 · In the Mauthausen concentration camp, music added to the suffering. Here is the story of Francesc Boix, the photographer who saved the images of that horror.
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Jan 27, 2021 · The “Mauthausen Trilogy” also known as “The Ballad of Mauthausen”, and the “Mauthausen Cantata”, is a cycle of four arias with lyrics based on poems written by Greek poet Iakovos Kambanellis, a Mauthausen concentration camp survivor, and music written by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.
