The Independent - London, September 17th, 2007
Composer and pianist
A Jewish Czech refugee from Nazism, Oskar Morawetz became a composer of international stature with a substantial body of powerful and individual works to his credit.
He came from a privileged background; although his father, Richard Morawetz, a textile manufacturer in what was then the Austro- Hungarian Empire, lost much of his extensive land-holdings in Svetl nad Szavou in the post-war reforms of 1918, he did manage to hold on to one estate containing the castle where Oskar had been born the previous year, a building so huge that less than half of its over 70 rooms were...
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