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Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 – 28 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.
Jun 24, 2024 · Paul Dessau was a German composer and conductor best known for his operas and other vocal works written in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. Dessau’s conducting career included posts in Cologne (1919–23) and Berlin (1925–33).
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Paul Dessau (* 19. Dezember 1894 in Hamburg; † 28. Juni 1979 in Königs Wusterhausen bei Berlin) war ein deutscher Komponist und Dirigent . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 1.1 Familiärer Hintergrund. 1.2 Musikalische Ausbildung. 1.3 Erste Anstellungen. 1.4 Kriegserfahrung. 1.5 Lehrjahre in Hamburg, Köln und Mainz. 1.6 Kapellmeister in Berlin.
Paul Dessau (1894–1979) was among the most principled and hard‐working composers whose career flourished under uneasy circumstances in postwar East Germany after the country’s partition.
Nov 11, 1999 · The fire-fighter Paul Dessau was in the front line. Although until then his life as an artist had been undistinguished, his record of the conflagrations are among the finest canvases of the...
Paul Dessau. Paul Dessau began as Kapellmeister under Otto Klemperer (Cologne) and Bruno Walter * In the twenties, began to work as conductor and composer for films * From 1933 onwards, the year of his emigration to Paris, his music expresses his antifascist attitude in his choice of texts and subject matters * In Paris meets Leibowitz ...
Paul Dessau was born on 19 December 1894 in Hamburg. He grew up in a musical family: his grandfather was a cantor in the Hamburg Synagogue and his father a great lover of music. One of his cousins, Max Winterfeld, better known under the pen name Jean Gilbert, was an orchestral conductor and composer of operettas.
