Schwarz, Rudolf (1905–1994)

Austrian-born English conductor. He survived a concentration camp in World War II and went to Sweden in 1945 and then England, where he became conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 1947–51, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1951–57, the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1957–62, and the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra 1964–73.

He studied piano and violin, playing viola in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1923 he became an assistant conductor at the Düsseldorf Opera and from 1927 to 1933 conductor at the Karlsruhe Opera, after which he became music director of the Jewish Cultural Union in Berlin until 1941, when he was sent to Belsen concentration camp.