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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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May 18, 2018 · DESSAU, PAUL (1894–1979), German composer. The grandson of a cantor, Dessau was born in Hamburg. He was co-répétiteur in Hamburg (1912) and conducted operetta at the Tivoli Theatre, Bremen (1913). In 1919 he became co-répétiteur and conductor in Cologne.
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 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.
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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.
