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- The pianist Mischa Hillesum was an abundantly musical and sensitive but also mentally unstable personality. Conservatoire teachers acknowledged his remarkable talents, and audiences were thrilled by his performances. Music was his raison d’être, his defence against dealing with the realities of daily life.
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Mischa Hillesum was raised in an unconventional environment in Deventer. In the family home, certainly not typically Dutch with its exotic interior and bohemian atmosphere, all attention was given to intellectual and cultural matters. Just three years of age, he amazed everyone with his piano playing.
The pianist Mischa Hillesum was an extremely musical, sensitive but also mentally unstable personality. Conservatory teachers acknowledged his stunning talents and audiences were thrilled by his performances. Music was his primary necessity, his way of dealing with daily realities. He was hospitalized several times in a mental institution.
May 9, 2024 · The pianist Mischa Hillesum was an abundantly musical and sensitive but also mentally unstable personality. Conservatoire teachers acknowledged his remarkable talents, and audiences were thrilled by his performances.
Jun 6, 2023 · Mischa Hillesum (1920–1944) was a Dutch composer and pianist. In the introduction to the diaries and letters of his sister Etty — An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941–1943 and Letters...
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Oct 9, 2015 · Mischa Hillesum was sent as forced labour to clear the debris of the Warsaw Ghetto, an ordeal he did not survive. His music is late Romantic and shows little trace of interest in contemporary developments.
Sep 29, 2018 · After Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum is probably the Netherlands’ most famous diarist of the Holocaust. Her diary, An Interrupted Life, covers the period from March 9, 1941, to October 13, 1942; it also includes several letters she wrote from the autumn 1942 through the late summer 1943.
Esther (Etty) Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
