A Survivor from Warsaw

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A Survivor from Warsaw is a dramatic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg that powerfully depicts a Holocaust survivor’s harrowing memories through spoken narration, chorus, and orchestra.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cantata
dramatic cantata
approximateDuration about 7 minutes
catalogueNumber Op. 46
commissionedBy Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Serge Koussevitzky
composer Arnold Schoenberg
culminatesIn choral proclamation of the Shema
dedicatedTo Koussevitzky Music Foundation
depicts roundup of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
firstPerformanceConductor Kurt Frederick
genre 20th-century classical music
Holocaust-themed music
historicalContext German occupation of Poland
surface form: Nazi occupation of Poland

World War II
influenced later Holocaust memorial compositions
instrumentation orchestra
language English
Hebrew
narrativePerspective first-person Holocaust survivor
partOf Arnold Schoenberg’s late works
placeComposed United States of America
surface form: United States
premiereCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
scoring male chorus
narrator
orchestra
structure single-movement work
style expressionism
twelve-tone technique
subjectOf Holocaust studies
musicological analysis
textAuthor Arnold Schoenberg
textFeature choral setting of the Shema Yisrael
spoken narration
textIncludes biblical prayer Shema Yisrael
textType narrative monologue
theme Holocaust
Jewish resistance
Nazi persecution of Jews
memory of trauma
vocalForces male chorus
speaker
vocalLanguageDistribution chorus in Hebrew
narration in English
yearComposed 1947

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Arnold Schoenberg notableWork A Survivor from Warsaw