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Rosenberg, Martin

LC control no.n 96072911
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Personal name headingRosenberg, Martin
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Variant(s)D'Arguto, Rosebery
Arguto, Rosebery d'
Associated placeBerlin (Germany)
Birth date18901224
Death date1943
Place of birthPoland
Place of deathOświęcim (Poland)
Field of activityChoral music Singing--Instruction and study Educational change Working class--Songs and music Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in music
AffiliationGesangsgemeinschaft Rosebery D'Arguto Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Profession or occupationChoral conductors Voice teachers Lyricists
Found inTsen brider, c1995: t.p. (folk song adaptation by Martin Rosenberg)
Music and the Holocaust website, viewed Feb. 23, 2015 (Martin Rosenberg; used the professional name Rosebery D'Arguto; b. 1890 in Czarist Poland, lived in Berlin in the 1920s & 1930s, d. in Auschwitz after Oct. 1942; active in proletariat choral music, heading the workers' chorus Gesangsgemeinschaft Rosebery D'Arguto; interested in reforming music education for the working classes by founding alternative singing school; organized Jewish choir in Sachsenhausen and wrote the song Jüdischer Todessang, based on a Yiddish folk melody, on learning he was being sent to Auschwitz)
   <http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/central-europe/sachsenhausen/rosenbergmartin/>
"Tsen Brider: a Jewish Requiem," 2000: p. 1 (Martin Rosenberg; b. December 24, 1890, in Poland) p. 9 (d. in Auschwitz in 1943)
   <http://iris.lib.neu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=music_fac_pubs>