The event, titled Music That Has Not Been Silenced, will take place in the funeral hall of the city's Jewish cemetery and feature Italian musicologist and pianist Francesco Lotoro, who has spent more than three decades collecting and restoring music composed by prisoners during World War II.
According to the Bielsko-Biała Cultural Centre, the programme will include a selection of previously unperformed works from Lotoro's archive.
The organisers describe the music—often written on scraps of paper or reconstructed from memory—as "a poignant testimony to the power of culture, remembrance and humanity."
The concert will be "an evening of reflection and music that survived the darkest time in history," they said.
Born in 1964, Lotoro studied at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari, southern Italy, and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
He has spent much of his life recovering music created in concentration camps, internment camps, forced labour camps, transit camps and prisoner-of-war camps between 1933—when the Nazis came to power and opened the Dachau concentration camp for political prisoners—and 1945, when World War II ended.
His archive contains more than 10,000 musical scores, including Symphony No. 8 for piano by Czech-German composer Erwin Schulhoff, written in the Wülzburg internment camp in Bavaria, where he died in 1942, and a nonet by Czech composer Rudolf Karel, written while he was imprisoned in Prague's Pankrác Prison.
Lotoro is also a major contributor to KZ Musik, a 48-CD collection of works composed by prisoners during the Nazi era.
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