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Viktor Ullmann

1898 to 1944 7 documented presences 6 places

Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Viktor Ullmann across 6 places, from 1898 to 1944. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898 – 18 October 1944) was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Viktor Ullmann was documented, and when

1 January 1898exact date
Cieszynattested “Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Cieszyn (Teschen), which belonged then to Austrian Silesia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1 January 1898exact date
Austro-Hungarian Empireattested “Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Cieszyn (Teschen), which belonged then to Austrian Silesia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
May 1919month
Pragueattested “In May 1919, he broke off both courses of study and left Vienna in order to devote himself fully to music in Prague.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
May 1919month
Viennaattested “In May 1919, he broke off both courses of study and left Vienna in order to devote himself fully to music in Prague.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1935 to 1937period
Pragueattested “Ullmann enrolled in Hába's department of quarter tone music at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied from 1935 to 1937.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
18 October 1944exact date
Auschwitz concentration campattested “Most important compositions preserved in manuscript: 3 piano sonatas; piano sonatas; songs; opera The Emperor of Atlantis; melodrama The Manner of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke * 1944 (16 October) Transfer to Auschwitz-Birkena…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
18 October 1944exact date
Theresienstadt concentration campattested “Most important compositions preserved in manuscript: 3 piano sonatas; piano sonatas; songs; opera The Emperor of Atlantis; melodrama The Manner of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke * 1944 (16 October) Transfer to Auschwitz-Birkena…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann

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Places Viktor Ullmann is documented in

Prague2 presences · 1919 to 1935Auschwitz concentration camp1 presence · 1944Vienna1 presence · 1919
Austro-Hungarian Empire1 presence · 1898
Cieszyn1 presence · 1898
Theresienstadt concentration camp1 presence · 1944

Other places tied to Viktor Ullmann in the record

In each of these, a source puts Viktor Ullmann and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Viktor Ullmann was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1898 to 1934period
Praguementioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1898 to 1934period
Aussig an der Elbementioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1898 to 1934period
Genevamentioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1898 to 1934period
Zürichmentioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1898 to 1934period
Stuttgartmentioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1898 to 1934period
Viennamentioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1898 to 1934period
New German Theatrementioned “* 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January * 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna * 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant * 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1909year
Viennamentioned “Beginning in 1909 Viktor attended a grammar school (Gymnasium) in Vienna.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1917 to 1944period
Terezinmentioned “In all, Ullmann worked on the opera for 27 years, from the first impressions in the First World War in 1917 to the finalization at Terezin in 1944.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1927year
New German Theatrementioned “His mentor was now Alexander von Zemlinsky, under whose direction he served as a conductor at the New German Theatre of Prague (now the Prague State Opera) until 1927.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1929year
Genevamentioned “At the Geneva music festival of the International Society for New Music in 1929, his Schönberg Variations, a piano cycle on a theme by his teacher in Vienna, caused something of a stir.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1929year
Viennamentioned “At the Geneva music festival of the International Society for New Music in 1929, his Schönberg Variations, a piano cycle on a theme by his teacher in Vienna, caused something of a stir.” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1933year
Praguementioned “As a result of his interest in anthroposophy, a movement founded by Rudolf Steiner, he spent another two years as a bookseller in Stuttgart, but was forced to flee Germany in mid-1933 and returned to Prague as a music teacher and journal…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1933year
Stuttgartmentioned “As a result of his interest in anthroposophy, a movement founded by Rudolf Steiner, he spent another two years as a bookseller in Stuttgart, but was forced to flee Germany in mid-1933 and returned to Prague as a music teacher and journal…” source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1938 to 1942period
Theresienstadt concentration campmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1938 to 1942period
Dornachmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1938 to 1942period
Baselmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1938 to 1942period
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moraviamentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1938 to 1942period
Londonmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
December 1939month
Praguementioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
8 September 1942exact date
Theresienstadt concentration campmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1945 to 1947period
Theresienstadtmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann
1945 to 1947period
Englandmentioned source: Wikipedia: Viktor Ullmann

Documented at the same place, the same year

Mihály KárolyiVienna · 1919Edmund HusserlPrague · 1935Aloysius StepinacAustria-Hungary · 1898Ivan CankarAustria-Hungary · 1898Etty HillesumAuschwitz concentration camp · 1944Ágnes HellerAuschwitz concentration camp · 1944Yisrael KristalAuschwitz concentration camp · 1944Ludwig WittgensteinVienna · 1919Hans KelsenVienna · 1919Béla GuttmannVienna · 1919Hanns EislerVienna · 1919

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