Edinburgh Quartet - Lunchtime Concert and World Premiere

The Edinburgh Quartet ('Scotland's String Quartet') closes its season with the world premiere of a string quartet by Pál Hermann (1902–1944), a Hungarian-Jewish composer and cellist murdered in the Holocaust.

The manuscript was recently discovered in an archive in Toulouse, where Hermann had been sheltered during the Nazi occupation.On 15 May 1944 he was one of the 878 men deported on Convoy 73, the only convoy from the Drancy internment camp sent to the Baltic states.

As the train stood at the station, he threw a note to his brother-in-law pleading for his instruments to be saved. "We are still full of hope," he wrote.

Only 22 men from that convoy survived the war.The programme also includes Haydn's String Quartet in C major 'Emperor' and Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 18 No. 6.

French pianist and curator Dimitri Malignan, founder of the Missing Voices initiative, will speak about Hermann's life before the concert.Followed by a drinks reception.