Paul Kling

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Paul Kling (b. Opava 28 March 1929[1] – d. 2 Jan. 2005, La Jolla, California[2]) was a Czech-born Canadian violinist. He was sent to Theresienstadt at the age of 13, where he was chosen to perform in Viktor Ullmann's opera The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death. The opera was rehearsed in 1944 at Theresienstadt, but never performed. In 1995, the opera was performed for the first time at Theresienstadt in a production of ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre and in 1996 for the first time the original score was presented at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa (Canada) with the survivors from Theresienstadt, Kling and Herbert Thomas Mandl as a part of the project "The triumph of the human spirit!".[3] On 28 September 1944, Kling was transported to Auschwitz, but survived. After the war he became concertmaster of the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Louisville Symphony Orchestra.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ International who's who in music and musicians' directory: Volume 10 Ernest Kay - 1985 KLING, Paul, b. 28 Mar. 1929, Opava, Czechoslovakia.
  2. ↑ http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/emc/paul-kling
  3. ↑ programme of the North American Premiere of the score of the opera of Viktor Ullmann on 22 October 1996
  4. ↑ Biography at World ORT's Music and the Holocaust
  5. ↑ In Memoriam Paul Kling
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