In the history of music, Alice Herz-Sommer is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Alice Herz-Sommer as British Jewish pianist and music teacher from Bohemia.
Alice Herz-Sommer was born at Prague in 1903. Her recorded nationality is Israel.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
She worked as musician, pianist and pedagogue.
Music outlives its context more reliably than any other art, and usually for reasons its makers did not predict.
Her work was formally recognised with the Artis Bohemiae Amicis Medal.
That the work was done from Israel matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Alice Herz-Sommer died in 2014, aged 111. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as musician, pianist and pedagogue
