Daniel Sternberg
Daniel Arie Sternberg (born March 29, 1913 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died August 26, 2000 in Waco , Texas ) was an American conductor, composer and university professor.
Life
Daniel Sternberg was a son of the lawyer Philipp Sternberg (1892-1948) and Eva Makowska, his brother Eli Sternberg , born in 1917, became an engineer. All managed to escape from the Nazi persecution of the Jews. From 1931 Sternberg studied music at the University of Vienna and at the Vienna Conservatory with Karl Weigl . In 1933/34 he gave courses at the Vienna Adult Education Center and directed a Viennese veteran orchestra. In 1935/36 he was Fritz Stiedry's assistant with the Leningrad Philharmonic , where he conducted the Russian premiere of Paul Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler in 1936 . In 1936/37 he was music director in Tbilisi , then he worked in Stockholm , Riga and again in Vienna . He married Felicitas Gobineau in 1936.
In 1939 he managed to escape to the USA , where he found employment at a girls' school in Dallas , Texas in 1940 . In 1942 he received a position at the Baylor University School of Music in Waco and became its dean in 1945. He founded a school orchestra, which he directed until his retirement in 1980, as well as a local symphony orchestra, which he directed from 1962 to 1987. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Waco, he was choirmaster and organist for 27 years and composed numerous choral and organ works for them. He also worked with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . At the university, he and his wife succeeded in performing some of the major works of opera literature in English translation.
Fonts (selection)
- Felicitas Gobineau: From a lost life . Poems. Self-published, Waco, Texas 1986.
literature
- Lori Scott Fogleman: Baylor Remembers Former Regent, Music Dean , at Baylor, August 28, 2000
- Alexander Rausch: Daniel Sternberg. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 1128f.
- Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda: Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Vienna: Publishing House for Social Criticism, 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Daniel Sternberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Daniel Sternberg in the bibliographic database WorldCat (unadjusted stock)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lori Scott Fogleman: Sternberg Returns for Season-Opening Performance , published by Baylor, October 7, 1999
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sternberg, Daniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sternberg, Daniel Arie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 2000 |
| Place of death | Waco |