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Paul Dessau (1894-1979) was a German composer and conductor who collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and wrote several operas based on his plays. He also composed music for films, oratorios, ballets and symphonies, and taught at the drama school in East Berlin.
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.
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...
Apr 8, 2020 · April 8, 2020. After a difficult period of exile in the United States that lasted much of the 1940s, Bertolt Brecht was ready to work with kindred spirits again. And in the composer Paul Dessau,...
May 21, 2021 · Paul Dessau, for example, became conscious of his Jewishness while in exile in Paris; he studied Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphony while becoming aware of music's power to fight fascism in particular and injustice in general.
Jul 7, 2023 · Violinist, composer and conductor, living through two world wars, caught between east and west, capitalism and communism: The remarkable and glittering life of German artist Paul Dessau is more than a good story – it cries out for the medium of film.
