Siegfried Alkan

Siegfried Alkan (30 March 1858 – 24 December 1941) was a German composer from Saarland in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was assaulted and his musical business was looted during the Kristallnacht. Biography Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland, within the Kingdom of Prussia to prominent Jewish piano businessman Johannes Alkan and his wife Johanna . His grandfather and two of his nephews were also musicians. He had three siblings. He was a distant relative of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy through his mother’s relationship to the Oppenheim family. and his piano looted by the Nazis. He refused to seek treatment at a Christian hospital, he tried to seek help at his synagogue, unaware it had been set ablaze. * "" (English: “Oh, if only you knew”; Op. 39) * "" (English: “Proto-Great-grandmother”; Op. 80) * "" (English: “The fog rolls through the valley”; Op. 92) References