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Holliger, Heinz - ALÈH STAVì

Catalogue No: CB307
for violoncello solo

Product FormatSheet Music
ComposerHolliger, Heinz
£5.50
Typically dispatched in 5-7 working days
SeriesEdition Schott
Pages8
Publication Date26 November 2021
Grade of Difficultydifficult
ISMN9790001214728 (M001214728)
UPC842819115755

Hanna Gaifman, with whom ties of friendship have linked me for over 30 years, was a piano student of Eliška Klein in in Prague. Unlike her brother Gideon Klein, who was murdered in Auschwitz-Fürstengrube, Eliška Klein survived the concentration camp. Thanks to Eliška, the wonderful, brilliant music of her brother Gideon, murdered at age 25, survived. My “fall leaf” traces Gideon Klein’s lifeline, which was shortened by unspeakable violence; starting at P?erov, the place of his birth, continuing via Prague to Therienstadt and ending in Auschwitz-Fürstengrube. Echoes of Gideon Klein’s music (the Fantasy and Fugue “one half of life” {Hölderlin} and the Hebrew lullaby «numa, numa schan») overlay my fall leaf, like the shadows of remembrance. Heinz Holliger
CB307