A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague, the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimised. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes - the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew - and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too - together with her husband and their six-year-ol…
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Weitere Autoren: Piechocki, Reinhard
- ISBN: 978-0-330-53939-5
- EAN: 9780330539395
- Produktnummer: 13954379
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 456 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'815 KB
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Melissa Muller,Reinhard Piechocki
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