Arno Nadel (M / Germany, 1878-1943), composer

Arno Nadel (1878-1943) was a Jewish Lithuanian-German composer. Born in Vilnius [Lithuania] in 1878. At the age of seventeen, entered the Jewish Teacher's Institute in Berlin, Germany. Lived in the German capital ever since. In 1916 was appointed conductor for the choir of the largest synagogue in Berlin, and shortly thereafter he became the musical supervisor of all Berlin synagogues. Was well known in Germany also as a poet, until 1935, when the Nazis burned his books and banned his work from any further publications. In 1943, was transported to Auschwitz, where he perished a victim of the Holocaust.

Works

Music

• Hebrew Melodies (1911)