Nico Richter
1915 - 1945
For a full biography and a complete list of works with links to scores and recordings, visit www.forbiddenmusicregained.org
In 2003 Tatlin Records released a CD with chamber music by Nico Richter.
Almost all Nico Richter’s surviving compositions date from his student days. Most of them are ultrashort, inspired by Webern and Berg. As a student of medicine, he directed the student orchestra MUSA. He joined the resistance, was arrested in 1942 and sent to work in successive concentration camps. A physical wreck, he dictated his final composition on his deathbed just after liberation. His talent never reached full maturity.
Nico Max Richter was born in Amsterdam on December 2nd 1915, the second of three children and the only son of the dentist Izaak Richter and his wife Sara Manheim who both came from Noord-Holland. The assimilated Jewish family lived in the Vondelstraat, where Nico’s father also practiced. The Vondelstraat was and is … Continue
Selected works
Violin Concerto 1933 violin and orchestra
Sonatine I 1934 piano
Serenade 1934 chamber orchestra
Trio 1935 flute, viola and guitar
Strijkkwartet 1936 string quartet
Amorys 1937 chamber opera
Twee stukken 1942 violin and piano
Serenade 1945 flute, violin and viola
For a complete list of works by Nico Richter visit our website Forbidden Music Regained.
Juul Muller wrote an extensive biography of Nico Richter.
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