Lost Music of Auschwitz
Duration
60mins
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Premiere Production
27th November, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
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Conductor
Leo Geyer
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The Constella Orchestra
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The initial performance receieved international coverage with outlets in the UK, US, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Poland, Norway and Spain. Highlights include:
Leo Geyer has painstakingly restored and completed 210 pieces from the death camp’s archives, composed by orchestras made up of imprisoned musicians
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​“Music composed at Auschwitz to be played for first time after being restored.”​
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“Sheet music written by Auschwitz prisoners collected dust for decades. This British composer restored it.”​
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“With the wave of a conductor’s baton, a heartbreaking melody began to resound inside a concert hall in London.”
​Washington Post United States
Commencing in 2015, The Lost Music of Auschwitz is Constella’s major project focused on restoring and performing long-forgotten music written by prisoners in Auschwitz.
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Dr. Leo Geyer has worked extensively in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum to piece together fragments of musical manuscripts, enabling this lost music to be heard once more.
Constella initiated the project to engage the public in commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. The project has led to a variety of outcomes, including an opera-ballet production, a radio programme, and a documentary film, resulting in worldwide media coverage.
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One of the outputs of this project comprises of lecture-recitals, which Constella has given across the UK and abroad.
Performance History
23rd Jan 205, Opera North, Leeds
8th June 2024, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
24th June 2024, National Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam
Upcoming Performance
5th Feb 206, Brundibár Arts Festival more info
Lost Music of Auschwitz
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