ArtistInfo

Olivier Greif

p, FR
Musician / Composer of Classical

Olivier Greif (3 January 1950, Paris – 13 May 2000, Paris) was a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. His father was an Auschwitz survivor, a fact which affected Greif deeply and led him to compose a number of Holocaust-themed works, notably Todesfuge, and Lettres de Westerbork, a song cycle which uses letters written by Etty Hillesum . (The composer wanted to use Paul Celan's poem "Todesfuge" in his third string quartet, but found it difficult to set, so kept the title but used Dylan Thomas's "Elegy" instead.)

Instruments

• Piano
• Vocals

Genres

• Classical
• Spoken Word