Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944). String Quartet no. 3, op. 46.
I. Allegro moderato – II. Presto – III. Largo - vivace e ritmico
Ullmann, born in Těšín (now on the borders of Poland and the Czech Republic), studied under Schoenberg and Alexander Zemlinsky in Vienna and Prague. Living in Germany, he fled to Prague in 1933, but in 1942 was taken to the internment camp of Terezin (Theresienstadt), where, despite the conditions, he continued to compose, including his extraordinary opera “The Emperor of Atl