Singer, Kurt
SINGER, KURT
SINGER, KURT (1885–1944), musicologist. Born in Berent in German Poland, Singer was music critic for the socialist newspaper Vorwaerts. In 1935 he became musical director of the Juedischer *Kulturbund. He moved to Holland in 1939 but was arrested during the German occupation and taken to the *Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he died. Singer wrote Richard Wagner (1913), Bruckners Chormusik (1924), Berufskrankheiten des Musikers (1927), Diseases of the Musical Profession (1932), and Heilwirkung der Musik (1927).
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