Biography
Dick Kattenburg ( Amsterdam , November 11th 1919 - Auschwitz , 1944 ) was a Dutch composer and Holocaust victim .
Kattenburg, of Jewish descent was, grew up in Naarden and visited the HBS in Bussum . He graduated theory and violin at the Collège Musical Belge in Antwerp , where he gave lessons include Hugo Godron . A good friend of that time was painter and violinist Theo Kroeze . In 1941 he obtained the diploma is theory and violin in The Hague . He was taught by Leo Smit .
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He and his family were hiding in Utrecht . On May 5th 1944 , he was arrested during a raid . He landed in Camp Westerbork and did not much later to Auschwitz. There he came between May 22 and September 30 in 1944 to life.
Kattenburg has written about thirty compositions. This included solo pieces and chamber music and orchestral works . He also wrote some Jewish and Palestinian songs, which he Romanian folk music called.
It was thought that there was only one composition by him preserved. In 2004 , however, a family member found a box in the attic with more compositions. In January 2010 appeared his work for the first time on CD performed by Leo Smit Ensemble under the title Music by Dick Kattenburg.
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