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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.
Paul Dessau (born Dec. 19, 1894, Hamburg, Ger.—died June 28, 1979, East Berlin, E.Ger. [now Berlin, Ger.]) 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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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.
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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...
Jan 12, 2023 · P aul Dessau was one of the most significant composers in the German Democratic Republic. Having grown up in Germany, Dessau spent the second world war years in the US, composing film scores...
Paul Dessau. 1894 - 1979. Snapshot. English Deutsch. 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 ...
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. His exceptionally diverse output is reflected in the heterogeneous contents of this compendium, the value of which is unrivalled as an introduction to a ...
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