Joseph Beer

Arts Desk

Once Silenced by the Holocaust, Composer Joseph Beer's Music Returns

A recent recording of an opera that premiered in 1937 shines a light on a Polish composer. He survived the Holocaust, but emerged from hiding only to shun…
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In 1938, a Young Composer On His Way to World Renown, Was Forced Into Hiding

Despite being a Polish Jew, 17-year-old aspiring composer Joseph Beer won admission in 1925 to the prestigious Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna, which had a…