Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers

Even the Holocaust could not silence the music of these composers

For the last 15 years, New York pianist Jeanne Golan has been recording and performing the works of composers persecuted by the Nazis as part of what has come to be known as the recovered voices movement. It began when Daniel Rothman, a composer friend in Los Angeles, suggested she check out the piano sonatas of Viktor Ullmann, who was held in the concentration camp in Terezin, Czechoslovakia. Ullmann was sent to Auschwitz where he perished in O…