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Walter Goehr (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈɡøːɐ̯]; 28 May 1903 – 4 December 1960) was a German composer and conductor who from 1937 lived and worked in the UK. He is the father of composer Alexander Goehr.
The conductor Walter Goehr was born in Berlin in 1903, where he was later a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. He became a conductor at the Berliner Rundfunk between 1925 and 1931, emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1933. Between 1933 and 1939 he was a conductor and music director of Columbia Records.
May 29, 2017 · The German-born English conductor and composer, Walter Goehr, studied theory with Arnold Schoenberg at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1925 to 1931 Walter Goehr was a conductor with the Radio Berlin, composing for it the opera Malpopita.
German composer and conductor Walter Goehr (1903-1961) was forced as a Jew to seek work outside Germany after working for Berlin Radio in 1932. He was invited to become music director for the Gramophone (later EMI), so he moved with his wife and newborn son to London.
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Walter Goehr was born on 28 May 1903 in Berlin, Germany. He was a composer, known for Great Expectations (1946), Betrayed (1954) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946). He died on 4 December 1960 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK.
Walter Goehr. German composer, arranger and conductor, born May 28, 1903, in Berlin, German Empire; died December 04, 1960, in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Father of composer Alexander Goehr.
