Wilhelm Grosz

[1894-1939]

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"Wilhelm Grosz was a successful Viennese composer who had pioneered the integration of jazz into classical music, Grosz was forced to abandon his promising career twice - first fleeing Berlin in 1933, then Vienna in 1934. His final years were marked by the practical difficulties of working under pseudonyms in London's commercial music industry, followed by the devastating separation from his young daughter when war prevented family reunification in New York. His sudden death from a heart attack in 1939, at age 45, came just as Hollywood opportunities beckoned but while his family remained scattered across continents."

-Excerpt from "Wilhelm Grosz", ORT Music and the Holocaust website

For more information, please visit: 

https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/resistance-and-exile/wilhelm-grosz/

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