Oskar Morawetz

Memorial to Martin Luther King

Morawetz for over half a century was considered one of Canada’s outstanding composers.  He was born in what is now the Czech Republic before the end of WWI, and studied in Prague until the Nazi invasion of the Sudetenland in 1938.   He thereupon continued his education in Vienna and Paris.  With the advent of the war, after several futile attempts he managed to immigrate to...

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