Ullmann, Viktor (1898–1944)

Austro-Hungarian composer. He was imprisoned in Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he wrote a one-act opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (1943), about a tyrannical monarch who outlaws death; it was first performed at Amsterdam in 1975. In October 1944 he was transferred to Auschwitz, where he died.

He studied with Schoenberg in Vienna, and was later a theatre conductor at Aussig and a music teacher in Prague.

Works Opera Peer Gynt (after Ibsen), Der Sturz des Antichrist, and Der Kaiser von Atlantis (1943).

Orchestral variations and double fugue on a theme by Schoenberg for orchestra.

Chamber octet, two string quartets.