Michael Jary (born Maximilian Michael Jarczyk in Laurahütte -Siemianowitz (today Siemianowice Śląskie) on 14 September 1906; died in Munich on 12 July 1988) was a German composer Early years Jary's father worked at the Königshütte iron works and his mother was a taylor. He planned to become a missionary and went to school at the monastery of the Steyl Missionaries near Neisse where he discovered his love of music. At the age of 18 he moved to the conservatory at Beuthen. He directed the church choir and started to write his first chamber music that were transmiited by radio Gleiwitz. The city theatre of Neisse and Plauen gave him a position as a second concert master. In 1929 Jary was accepted at the Staatliche Akademische Musikhochschule at Berlin, meanwhile he made money playing as a pianist at cafés or movies. Inn 1931 he received the Beethoven-prize of Berlin. During the Nazi years When Jarcsyk delivered his graduating concert on 8 February 1933, he got bullied by members of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. Paul Graener, the new director of the Stern’sches Konservatorium denigrated his concert as „... culture-bolshevistic musical stammer of a Polish Jew“! Jarcsyk had to go underground for some time and used as pseudonym Jackie Leeds for arrangements and Max Jantzen for chansons. Recognizing that his name was a hindrance to his career, he changed it to Michael Jary. Sinfonic-type of music was his strength. But after he composed his first musical score for a movie,D

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