Collegium Musicum
2020 Holocaust Remembrance Project - Artists of Terezin


Alexei Yavtuhovich - violin
Alexandra Neglia - violin
Brett Deubner - viola
Mira Kang - cello


Recorded October October 2, 2020 at St Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, Old Bridge New Jersey
Video / Audio by Collegium Musicum
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Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944). String Quartet no. 3, op. 46

I. Allegro moderato – II. Presto – III. Largo - IV.Allegro vivace e ritmico


Viktor Ullmann, born in Těšín (now on the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic), studied under Schoenberg and Alexander Zemlinsky in Vienna and Prague. Living in Germany, he fled to Prague in 1933, but in 1942 was taken to the internment camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt), where, despite the conditions, he continued to compose, including his extraordinary opera “The Emperor of Atlantis”. Ullmann wrote “ … we certainly did not sit down by the waters of Babylon and weep, ... our desire for culture was matched by our desire for life.”


The highly expressive Third Quartet was completed there in January 1943. On October 16 1944 Ullmann was deported to Auschwitz and was murdered there in the gas chambers two days later.

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