Artur Holde
Artur Ludwig Holde (born October 16, 1885 in Rendsburg , † June 23, 1962 in New York ) was a German-American composer , conductor and music critic .
Life
Holde studied piano, organ and composition in Berlin . From 1910 to 1936 he worked in Frankfurt am Main as a choir director at the main synagogue there and wrote music reviews for the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger from 1918 to 1933 . In addition, from 1911 to 1919 he was conductor at the city's new theater .
From 1933 to 1936 he was the editor of the South German edition of the Israelitisches Familienblatt .
In 1937 he emigrated to the USA and settled in New York . There he also worked as a choir director and music critic. Under the abbreviation "AH" he wrote numerous essays for the Jewish monthly magazine Aufbau .
family
Artur Holde was married to the pianist Heida Hermanns-Holde (actually Hedwig Goldschmidt, 1906-1995) since 1932. She emigrated to New York in October 1936 and became a lecturer at the Manhattan School of Music . Most recently she lived in Westport , Connecticut . She left behind extensive memoirs that she dictated to her daughter Joanna Foster in 1991.
Compositions (selection)
- Five songs for medium voice op.4 , Leipzig: Leuckart, ca.1912
Publications (selection)
Books
- Jews in Music: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Present , New York: Philosophical Library, 1959
- Bruno Walter , Berlin-Zehlendorf: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1960
- Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The history of a music center , Berlin-Zehlendorf: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1961
- Leonard Bernstein , Berlin-Zehlendorf: Rembrandt-Verlag, 1961
Essays
- Suppressed Passages in the Brahms - Joachim Correspondence Published for the First Time. In: The Musical Quarterly , vol. 45 (1959), pp. 312-324
- Brahms and the Joachim couple. What the editions of the correspondence conceal. In: Die Brücke zur Welt , Sunday supplement of the Stuttgarter Zeitung , Saturday, July 25, 1959
literature
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 160 ( digitized version ).
- Holde, Artur , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 532
Web links
- Holde, Arthur Ludwig. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Short biography in the Jewish Music Research Center
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dear Artur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holde, Artur Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American composer, conductor and music critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rendsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1962 |
| Place of death | new York |