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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 was the father of composer Alexander Goehr. [1]
Walter Goehr war ein deutscher Dirigent und Komponist, der nach England emigrierte.
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.
With the death of Alexander Goehr (known to all as ‘Sandy’), Professor of Music at Cambridge between 1976 and 1999, British music has lost one of its finest and most influential composers, and countless musicians have lost a dear friend and teacher.
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.
Peter Alexander Goehr (German: ['ɡøːɐ̯]; 10 August 1932 – 25 August 2024) was a German-born English composer of contemporary classical music and academic teacher. A long-time professor of music at the University of Cambridge, Goehr influenced many notable contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, George ...
Required Rehandling – an interview with Alexander Goehr. Written by: Duncan Hadfield. Three highly significant British composers were born within two years of each other in the 1930s – Alexander Goehr (in Berlin in 1932), Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle (both in 1934).
