!!!Zipper, Herbert

b. Vienna, April 27, 1904, 
d. Santa Monica, USA. April 21, 1997, composer, conductor, music 
educator. After a sucessful career as a musician in Vienna deported to 
the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 because of his Jewish descent. 
At Dachau, Zipper composed the "Dachau-Lied" to a text by J.  Soyfer; 
was released from the concentration camp after paying ransom, went to 
the Philippines, where he was interned by the Japanese; lived in the 
USA after 1945, where he exercised considerable influence on music 
education.



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