List of composers influenced by the Holocaust

This is a list of composers who have written music about the Holocaust, or who were directly influenced by the holocaust. This list is alphabetical by name.

A

• Chava Alberstein
• David Amram (1930– )

B

• Dawid Beigelman (1887–1945)
• Karel Berman
• David Botwinik (1920–2022)

C

• John Cage (1912–1992)

E

• Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)

F

• Grigory Frid (1915–2012)
• Erich Frost

G

• Mordechai Gebirtig (1877–1942)
• Sylvia Glickman (1932–2006)
• Hirsh Glick
• Osvaldo Golijov (1960– )
• Henryk Górecki (1933–2010)
• Olivier Greif (1950–2000)

H

• Pavel Haas (1899–1944)
• Marilyn Herman (1960– ) "Rozsa's Wish" and "The Angel of Chomutov"
• Michael Horvit
• William B. Hoskins (1917–1997)

J

• Wilfred Josephs

K

• Shmerke Kaczerginski
• Peysakh Kaplan
• StÃ¥le Kleiberg (1958– )
• Gideon Klein (1919–1945)
• Wally Kleucker (1947– )
• Douglas Knehans (1957– )
• Józef Koffler
• Max Kowalski (1882–1956)

• Hans Krása (1899–1944)
• Jozef Kropinski
• Aleksander Kulisiewicz (1918–1982)
• Meyer Kupferman (1926–2003)

L

• Szymon Laks
• Aron Liebeskind
• György Ligeti (1923–2006)
• Ruth Lomon

M

• Mesías Maiguashca (born 1938) See (1997)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
• Darius Milhaud (1892–1974)
• Oskar Morawetz

N

• Lior Navok (born 1971)
• Șerban Nichifor (born 1954)
• Luigi Nono 1924–1990)

O

• Tera de Marez Oyens

P

• Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945)
• Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020)
• Dmitri Pokrass
• Yehuda Poliker
• Marta Ptaszynska

R

• Shulamit Ran
• Steve Reich

S

• Salem, band
• Simon Sargon
• Arnold Schoenberg
• Erwin Schulhoff
• William Schuman

• Ronald Senator
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Leo Smit
• Ben Steinberg
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Karel Å venk (1917–1945)
• Władysław Szpilman

T

• Carlo Taube
• Sir Michael Tippett
• Mikis Theodorakis
• Marcel Tyberg

U

• Viktor Ullmann

W

• Ilse Weber
• Mieczysław Weinberg
• László Weiner (1916–1944)
• Lazar Weiner

Z

• Herbert Zipper
• John Zorn
• Krystyna Å»ywulska

See also

• The Holocaust in the arts and popular culture

References

External links

• Music of the Holocaust, online exhibition by Yad Vashem