Ernst Roth (music publisher)
Ernst Roth (born June 1, 1896 in Prague , † July 17, 1971 in Twickenham , Great Britain ) was an Austrian music publisher , music writer and lawyer of the Jewish faith.
Life
Ernst Roth, who received piano lessons at the age of five, studied law , philosophy and music theory at the University of Prague from 1915 and received his doctorate in law in 1921. He then studied musicology in Vienna with Guido Adler . After military service in World War I , he became editor of the Vienna Philharmonic Verlag in the early 1920s . In his further publishing activities at Universal Edition Vienna , he devoted himself particularly to revising the piano works of Mozart , Schubert , Schumann and Brahms ; in addition, he wrote more than a hundred specialist articles and three novels.
After Austria's “ annexation ” to the “ Greater German Reich ” and the associated “ Aryanization ” of Universal Edition in 1938, Roth went into exile in London , where he joined the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes that same year . Here he translated numerous operas and choral works , a. a. by Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky , into German and created piano reductions and arrangements of works by famous composers such as Bach , Beethoven and Mozart . Roth temporarily took over the management of the publishing house and served the publishing house in management positions until his death in 1971 - interrupted in 1940 by a brief internment in a camp on the Isle of Man , which, thanks to the efforts of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, only lasted four months . He and his wife Kate Henriette Roth (biology teacher) became British citizens on September 10, 1946, Quelle National Archives, there is the Certificate of Naturalization.
Own writings
Music as art and commodity. Considerations and encounters of a music publisher . Zurich: Atlantis, 1966.
literature
- Barbara Boisits: Roth, Ernst. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
Web links
- Ernst Roth in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
- Literature by and about Ernst Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thorne, E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-British music publisher, music writer and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th July 1971 |
| Place of death | Twickenham , UK |