Musical sources survived in the Collection of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Abstract

The article presents the conclusions of the research conducted by the author in the collection of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp.The sources are fully featured and described for the first time.The article focuses on showing a complicated post-war history of the items connected with music (musical instruments, printings, manuscripts, handwritten copies of instrumental books), which are auxiliary sources to reconstruct the repertoire of chapels in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.The main aim of the article is also to discuss the preserved repertoire.In the last chapter, the author presents a short characteristics of original works composed by musicians and composers in slavery with a short analysis of all of them.Presented musical printings are a reflection of tastes of the German public in the 1930s as well as an example of ridiculous anthropological establishments of Nazi music scientists and the lack of ability to implement it on listeners practice.In addition, the work con-1 The article is based on the last chapter of the BA thesis titled: Nieznane oblicza muzyki.Muzyka w KL Auschwitz na przykładzie działalności kapel więźniarskich, written under guidance of Dr. Wojciech Marchwica and defended by the author in July 2016 at the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University.Previous two chapters concern issues of the state of research on music in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the role of chapels in the reality of a camp, including its functions.

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