On Thursday, July 31, 2025, 7:30 pm, a special piano concert will take place at the Jewish Museum Creglingen.
Karl-Heinz Rehfeld presents songs, hits and musical songs exclusively by Jewish composers on the “Preßburger Piano”.
There will also be brief explanations of the lives and fates of these composers, whose often cheerful melodies will be familiar to most listeners. Despite their popularity with the public, the lives of Jewish artists often ended in concentration camps or in emigration.
Listeners will be surprised at how many familiar melodies they will hear during this piano concert.
The piano belonging to Creglingen’s Jewish senior teacher, cantor and kosher slaughterer Josef Preßburger was donated to the Jewish Museum in 2019. The instrument was built in 1900 by the company Carl A. Pfeiffer Stuttgart – Hof-Pianoforte-Fabrikant seiner Majestät des Königs von Württemberg, which still exists today as a family business in Leonberg.
Unfortunately, it is not known when and how the piano came into the possession of Josef Preßburger. After his death on April 4, 1938 and the emigration of his wife Caroline to Brazil in 1939, it became the property of the Wagner family, the Preßburgers‘ landlords.
Mrs. Wagner, who had played the instrument for decades, decided not to sell the valuable instrument after moving into a care facility, but to give it to the Jewish Museum as an exhibit. The Creglingen Jewish Museum Foundation is very grateful to Elisabeth Wagner for her generous gift.
Entry free
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