The great German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a witness in Bavaria in 1945 to one of the death marches from the Dachau concentration camp towards Tyrol/Seefeld. Hartmann: “On April 27 and 28, 1945, a stream of people classified as Dachau ‘protective detainees’ dragged past us – infinite was the stream – infinite was the misery – infinite was the suffering... A human being, and especially an artist, must not live in the gray everyday life without having spoken out. My music has often been called confession music recently. I see it as a confirmation of my artistic will. It was important to me to make my humane outlook on life perceptible within an artistic organism.”

The Tyrolean pianist Michael Schöch interprets Hartmann's confessional piano sonata “April 27, 1945”, which refers to the death marches, and combines it with the grand Symphonie pour piano by the French-Jewish composer Charles Valentin Alkan.

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