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    Austrian female violinist (1906-1944), daughter of a famous violinist, niece of a very famous composer and one of the wives of a very famous violinist. She ended conducting an extremely weird orchestra in an awful place, where she died. Who was she?

    Question #93397. Asked by Cem1942. (Mar 11 08 4:34 AM)


    BRY2K

    		Alma Rosé is the violinist you are profiling.

    Her life ended in the Concentration Camp Auschwitz.

    In her final days she directed an orchestra of terrified prisoners who played to their captors in order that they should stay alive.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Ros%C3%A9


    Mar 11 08, 4:47 AM

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