Uncovering a precious heritage: the unknown music of the Holocaust

这个博士研究项目是基于亚历山大Kulisiewicz收藏，一个独特的档案，现在存储在美国大屠杀纪念博物馆在华盛顿特区，保存在第二次世界大战期间纳粹集中营的囚犯写的音乐作品的著名资源。尽管其非凡的重要性，大部分的档案仍然鲜为人知的thescholarly社区，即使在今天，许多领先的学者在该领域的承认。因此，该项目旨在探索和揭示被忽视和完全遗忘的作曲家，并将他们的艺术遗产重新引起公众，学者，表演者以及国际音乐学界的关注。这项工作不仅将有助于加深和扩大我们目前对这一剧目有限的了解，而且还有助于通过他们的艺术恢复对所有在战争期间受到迫害的人的记忆。这项研究将考虑到被关押在德国集中营和被占领的波兰的被拘留者所写的器乐和声乐作品，特别关注来自KLDachau的作曲家Leon Kaczmarek和Teodora Grace，来自KL拉文斯布鲁克的Ludmila Peskarova，来自KL Stutthof的Waleria Felchnerowska和来自KL Majdanek的SofiaKarpinska。这项研究将通过对这一巨大的音乐见证的历史和艺术存档，以及对乐谱的音乐分析，文本调查和历史背景化来进行，以便不仅在学术框架内展示这一音乐遗产，而且还向希望从艺术角度表演和研究这样一个重要历史时期的音乐家和表演者展示。因此，研究成果将通过出版一本专著，然后出版经过编辑的乐谱和相关音乐录音来提供。

This doctoral research project is based on the prestigious resources of the Alexander KulisiewiczCollection, a unique archive, nowadays stored at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inWashington DC, that preserves musical compositions written by prisoners in the Nazi concentration campsduring World War II. Despite its extraordinary importance, most of the archive remains little known to thescholarly community even today, as acknowledged by many leading academics in the field. Therefore, theproject aims to explore and shed light on neglected and completely forgotten composers and to bringtheir artistic heritage back to the attention of the public, scholars, performers, as well as the internationalmusicological community. The work will not only contribute to deepening and broadening our currentlylimited knowledge of this repertoire but also help to restore, through their art, the memory of all thosewho were persecuted during the war. The research will take into account both instrumental and vocalcompositions written by internees imprisoned in the German camps and in those established in theoccupied Poland, with a particular focus on composers Leon Kaczmarek and Teodora Grace from KLDachau, Ludmila Peskarova from KL Ravensbruck, Waleria Felchnerowska from KL Stutthof, and SofiaKarpinska from KL Majdanek. The research will be carried out through a historical and artistic archiving ofthis enormous musical testimony, together with a musical analysis of the scores, inquiry of texts andhistorical contextualisation in order to display this musical legacy not only within an academic frameworkbut also to musicians and performers who wish to perform and study such an important historical periodfrom an artistic perspective. For this reason, the research outcomes will be made available through thepublication of a monograph followed by edited scores and recordings of the music thereto related.