Mietskaserne: vier Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier

location of manuscript: www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/146.06 009/169 ‘Tenement house: four songs for singing voice and piano’ 1. Mädchen am Fenster 2. Die Näherin 3. Am laufendem Band 4. Die Schmiede See also: www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl archive registration number 009/146.06 009/169 Included in ‘35 Hollandsche Gedichten’ (see elsewhere) His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres. by Frans van Ruth