- Along with fellow composers Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein, Krása was taken to Auschwitz.
- In 1927 he followed Zemlinsky to Berlin, where he was introduced to Albert Roussel.
- Brundibár, a children's opera based on a play by Aristophanes, was the last work Krása completed before he was arrested by the Nazis on 10 August 1942.
- Krása, whose primary influences were Mahler, Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, also felt an affinity with French music, especially the group of composers known as Les Six and made a number of trips to France to study under Roussel whilst he lived in Berlin. Krása eventually returned, homesick, to Prague to resume his old job as a répétiteur at the Neues Deutsches Theater.
- The awareness of the uniqueness of Krasa's music is felt all the more so today, as his compositions have become known in recent years through increasing performances, recordings and publications of his scores.
- His debut as a composer came with his Four Orchestral Songs op. 1, based on the Galgenlieder (Gallows Songs) of Christian Morgenstern. The work was first performed under Zemlinsky's direction in Prague in May 1921 and was widely acclaimed. There followed a string quartet, a set of five songs for voice and piano and his Symphonie für kleines Orchester, which was performed in Zurich, Paris and Boston.
- Krása was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto where he reworked Brundibár for the available forces, which was then performed 55 times in the camp and also features in the infamous propaganda film made for the Red Cross in 1944.
- The fact that Krása led a rather Bohemian lifestyle, thereby missing opportunities of writing more works, is countered by the quality of those pieces that have been preserved. Indeed, had Krása died before the onset of the Second World War, his name would merit recognition as that of an artist who enriched the music of our era with a number of fresh, original and significant compositions. Krása, however, did not die before the war. After spending several years in Terezin, where he was active in its musical life, he left for Auschwitz on 16 October 1944.
- His Three Songs after poems by Arthur Rimbaud, Ctyrversí, Vzrusení and Prátelé, sung by Christian Gerhaher, appear on the CD Terezín - Theresienstadt initiated by Anne Sofie von Otter, Deutsche Grammophon, 2007.
- While he was interned in the ghetto, Krása was at his most productive, producing a number of chamber works although, due to the circumstances, some of these have not survived.
- He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
- Krása had some performances in the United States and France in the 1920s and several of his compositions were published in Vienna and Paris.
- He studied both the piano and violin as a child and went on to study composition at the German Music Academy in Prague. After graduating, he went on to become a répétiteur at the Neues Deutsches Theater, where he met the composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky, who had a major influence on Krása's career.
- His major achievement, was the opera Verlobung im Traum (Betrothal in a Dream) after the novel Uncle's Dream by Dostoyevsky. This work was first performed at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague in 1933 under Georg Szell and was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize.[.
- Hans Krása was born in Prague to a Czech father who was a lawyer, and a German Jewish mother.
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