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Maestro Leon Botstein

We like to see the people whom we can understand easily. Rathaus is extremely hard to understand – a wonderful composer but he does not fit into a neat category.

Maestro Leon Botstein, in an interview for Discovering Karol Rathaus

Bernard Herrmann

The music of the Karamazoff (written by Rathaus) is one of the most imaginative achievements in sound films

Bernard Herrmann, an American film composer

Bernard Rathaus

Hitler killed composer Karol Rathaus

Bernard Rathaus, composer's son

Jasha Horenstein

My problem is that of the independent and individual composer. I have no embassies that stand behind me, no propaganda machine; in the country where I live very happily, I’m considered a non-native

Karol Rathaus, from the letter to conductor Jascha Horenstein

Robert K. Schwarz

A new CD devoted entirely to Rathaus’s music reveals a composer of stature possessed of enormous skill and personality: a man whose name might be known today had his career not been disrupted at its moment of greatest promise.

Robert K. Schwarz, New York Times, March 8, 1988