Miklos Steinberg Work |best| — Fur Alma By

Steinberg writes in a breathless, paratactic style reminiscent of early Georg Trakl or the Hungarian avant-gardist Lajos Kassák. Sentences are short, percussive. Imagery is startlingly synesthetic :

: Miklos Steinberg, a professional Hungarian pianist and composer, meets Alma Rosé while they are both performing music for the Nazi officers in the camp. A Final Tribute fur alma by miklos steinberg work

Actually, the famous short piano piece is by Arvo Pärt (Estonian, 1976) — not Steinberg. Thus, you may have confused two composers. Steinberg writes in a breathless

: The composition was intended to be a musical legacy—a "love song" that would survive the composer and serve as a lasting testament to his devotion to Alma and his refusal to be silenced by the camp's brutality. a professional Hungarian pianist and composer