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Seven years ago, composer Leo Geyer was rifling through the Auschwitz archives, looking for ways to create a musical score in memory of Martin Gilbert, the British historian and Holocaust expert who had died in February that year.

Geyer, 31, then made an astonishing discovery. He stumbled across fragments of music played by orchestras at the camp that had remained untouched for nearly 80 years.

On Monday, part of ‘The Orchestras of Auschwitz’, an opera ballet created by Geyer using those fragments and survivors’ accounts of the death camp, was performed by an orchestra at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.