Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Dillingen/Saar, Saarland, Germany
About Siegfried Alkan
- Siegfried Alkan (March 30, 1858 – December 24, 1941) was a German composer. Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland (then Prussia, now Germany), the son of Johannes Alkan and Johanna Bonn in a family of merchants and musicians.
- Through his mother he was a distant cousin of the composers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel and Giacomo Meyerbeer.
- It is unknown how, or if, he was related to the French composer and pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan, but like the latter, he was a scion of Jewish families from the Moselle region. In 1938 the octogenarian Siegfried Alkan became a victim of the "Kristallnacht".
- His instruments were destroyed and he himself was beaten by Nazi hordes.
- In his last years he was forced to wear the yellow star. Many works of Siegfried Alkan seem to be lost.
- Still known are for example the compositions "Gruß an die Saar" (Op.
- 32), "O wüsstest du's" (Op.
- 39), "Neues Saarlied" (Op.
- 91) and "Ur-Großmütterchen" (Op.
- 80), which was very popular in the time after World War I.
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