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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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Dec 31, 2014 · Ted Cohen of WBAI-FM, presents a documentary on the life and music of the German Jewish composer Paul Dessau. Born in Hamburg in 1894 (and eventually dying in East Berlin in 1979), Dessau’s tumultuous life included periods of obscurity, exile and poverty, before his eventual recognition as one of the great politically radical composers of the ...
Along with his contemporary Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau (1894–1979) was one of East Germany’s most prominent composers. The grandson of a Jewish cantor, Dessau fled Germany when the Nazis came to power, living in Paris before moving to New York and later California.
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 (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.
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Paul Dessau had lived in Berlin since the end of the 1920s. Initially he worked as a conductor at the Städtische Oper Berlin under the direction of general musical director Bruno Walter . But Dessau was no friend of the opera business; rather, he was drawn to composing his own works, and he was able to use his gift in film.
