Composers: Rathaus
Compositions: Piano works
Performers: Daniel Wnukowski p
Catalogue Number: TOCCATA TOCC0511

Karol Rathaus was born in what is now the Ukraine but became a Polish citizen. Like many Jewish musicians, he was uprooted by the war and eventually settled in the USA. Although he had been one of the first serious composers to write for films (notably The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov in Germany in 1930), he failed to find movie work in Hollywood. He finally settled in New York and took up a teaching post, his early successes forgotten.