With his works of the 1920s – an original blend of traditional genres, rhythms inspired by jazz and dance music and judiciously expanded tonality – the German-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff captured the tenor of the times. This edition presents ...

Erwin Schulhoff was a German-speaking composer who was born in Prague in 1894 and died in the Nazi concentration camp in Wülzburg (Bavaria) in 1942. In the 1920s he returned to his native Prague to teach at the local conservatory. His ...

Schulhoff spent a total of four years working on the "Sextet for Two Violins, Two Violas and Two Violoncellos". While the first movement was already completed in Dresden on 27 April 1920, it took until 30 April 1924 to complete the ...