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Date of Birth
16 November 1895, Hanau, Germany

Date of Death
28 December 1963, Frankfurt, Germany

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German composer. After his father's death in 1915, he brought money home to the family by playing in taverns and cinemas. He also performed as a solo violist or in various chamber music ensembles, organized music festivals in Donaueschingen and Baden-Baden (1923-1929), taught at the Hochschule für Musik, Berlin (1927-1938), Yale University (1940-1953) and Zürich University (1951-1956), and in 1953 began a new career as orchestral conductor. Emigrated to the USA in 1940.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 271-272. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.


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