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Ernst Toch (German:; 7 December 1887 – 1 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of European classical music and film scores, who from 1933 worked as an émigré in Paris, London and New York. He sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music.
Apr 11, 2024 · Pulitzer Prize (1956) Ernst Toch (born Dec. 7, 1887, Vienna, Austria—died Oct. 1, 1964, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was a composer whose works, noted for their perfection of form, fused elements from the classical tradition with modern musical ideas. Although he rarely carried innovation to great lengths, he was considered a leader of the ...
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Jun 18, 2015 · Reuse this content. Ernst Toch was one of Weimar Germany’s most celebrated composers. Fleeing the Nazis for California, he continued to write, but found his work overlooked. Today, his grandson...
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Ernst Toch 1887 – 1964 Late in his life, despite his earlier prominence in Weimar, Germany, Ernst Toch sadly assessed his standing as “the world’s most forgotten composer.”
Jun 11, 2014 · It demonstrates that Toch’s journey was not merely ‘geographical’: “While romanticism in music repelled us almost to the point of nausea, we cannot deny that music in itself, the very conception of music, is romantic. And while sentimentality has no place in true art, we must not confuse sentimentality with sentiment.
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About Ernst Toch. Across his final years, in Southern California, in the early 1960s, Ernst Toch used to characterize himself as “the world’s most forgotten composer,” and even though the joke betrayed a certain wincing validity, it was as nothing compared to the fact of the origins of his musical vocation, seventy five years earlier, in ...
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