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Felicitas Kukuck

Born1914-11-02
BirthplaceHamburg
CountryGermany
GenderFemale
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Biography

Felicitas Kukuck (2 November 1914 – 4 June 2001) was a German composer and educator. Although of Jewish origin she was able to conceal this and remain undetected in Germany during the Second World War.

She is mainly known as a composer of vocal music but she also composed instrumental works, for example the "Sonata for Flute and Piano", which premiered in 1941 in Berlin.

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Her best known pieces are the melody to the hymn "Manchmal kennen wir Gottes Willen (Sometimes We Know God's Will)" and the song "Es führt über den Main (It Goes Over the Main)".

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.