Siegfried Alkan
| Siegfried Alkan | |
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| File:Siegfried Alkan.jpegImage:Siegfried Alkan.jpeg Siegfried Alkan with his mother Johanna in an 1899 photograph | |
| Born | 30 March 1858 Dillingen, Saarland, Kingdom of Prussia |
| 24 December 1941 (aged 83)24 December 1941 (aged 83) | |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Siegfried Alkan (30 March 1858 – 24 December 1941) was a German composer.
Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland (then Prussia, now Germany), the son of Johannes Alkan and Johanna Bonn in a family of merchants and musicians. Through his mother he was a distant cousin of the composers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel and Giacomo Meyerbeer.[citation needed] It is unknown whether he was related to the French composer and pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan, but like the latter, he was a scion of Jewish families from the Moselle region.
In November 1938, when he was in his eighties, Alkan was assaulted during Kristallnacht, and his musical instruments were destroyed. In the regime’s later years, he was also compelled to wear the yellow badge identifying Jews.
Many works of Siegfried Alkan seem to be lost. Still known are for example the compositions "Gruß an die Saar" (Op. 32), "O wüsstest du's" (Op. 39), "Neues Saarlied" (Op. 91) and "Ur-Großmütterchen" (Op. 80), which was very popular in the time after World War I.
References
Gregor Brand: Über den saarländischen Komponisten SIEGFRIED ALKAN (in German)
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