Avraham Daus

This article deals with the composer Avraham Daus (1902–1974). For the composer (* 1929) see Ram Da-Oz .

Avraham Daus , also Abraham (born June 6, 1902 in Berlin , † June 25, 1974 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli conductor and composer.

Life

From 1919 to 1921 Daus studied piano and composition with Eduard Behm at the Berlin Music Academy with Schmidt and then with Hugo Röhr and Walter Courvoisier at the Munich Music Academy .

Between 1922 and 1933 Daus had engagements as a conductor at the opera houses in Breslau, Dortmund, Krefeld and Wuppertal. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in the German Reich in 1933 he was banned from working and emigrated to France. Daus had been an active Zionist since 1928 and emigrated to Palestine in 1936 . Daus appeared in Tel Aviv in 1944 with the cabaret artist Ruth Klinger , for whom he had already composed in Germany.

Daus worked as a music teacher and choir conductor and lived in a kibbutz . In Palestine he married the emigrated art teacher and book illustrator Ilse Kantor-Daus , the sister of the writer Friedrich Torberg . They have two daughters, Tamar and Tirsa.

The twelfth sonnet (after Rilke) (1968) was also recorded by the cellist Siegfried Palm .

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 .
• Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Macmillan, London 1980. Lemma Daus, Avraham .
• Yehuda Walter Cohen, Development and Development of Music in Israel , Kassel: Bärenreiter 1976, ISBN 3-7618-0513-6 .

Web links

• Daus, Avraham 1902–1974 at worldcat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruth Klinger to Arnold Zweig , December 9, 1944, in: Ludger Heid (ed.): “I call that a tenable alliance!”: Arnold Zweig / Beatrice Zweig and Ruth Klinger - Briefwechsel (1936–1962) , Vienna, among others: Lang 2005, ISBN 3-906757-02-1 , pp. 85f