Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Music and Exile
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 134-154
Keywords:
Goldschmidt, Berthold
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Goldschmidt family (Hamburg, Germany)
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Jewish composers Biography
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Jewish composers Biography
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Jews Genealogy
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Hamburg (Germany)
Abstract:
Berthold Goldschmidt was born in Hamburg in 1903. He had strong family ties to the city. He studied composition and conducting in Berlin. After 1933 he composed and performed works connected with the Jewish community. In 1935 he fled from the Nazis to England. Much later, after the war he visited Hamburg several times where his works were performed, including a lecture-concert in 1991 featuring an interview with the author. Here they discussed his projected string trio Retrospectum, which autobiographically alludes to his prewar life in Hamburg, referred to in his late works as ‘HBG’. Hamburg also hosted his ninetieth birthday gala concert in 1993 and was where, in 1996, he gave his last public performance as pianist. He wrote incidental music for W. Borchert’s Draußen vor der Tür.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004544109_009
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