The attempt to visualize this music leads us to a sort of museum with tidy showcases, each of them presenting positions and styles of the time around 1920. After returning home from WWI, the composer had to scratch a living doing musical odd jobs. Schulhoff obtained Soviet citizenship, but he was arrested in Prague the day after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. In 1944, he died in the Wülzburg concentration camp in Germany and it was to take more than 40 years until his work became known and more and more popular.