Herbert Zipper

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Herbert Zipper (born April 24, 1904 in Vienna ; † April 21, 1997 in Santa Monica ) was an Austrian-American composer, conductor and music teacher.

Herbert Zipper was the son of a successful engineer and inventor, whose family was in intellectual circles.

Herbert Zipper studied from 1923 to 1928 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Joseph Marx music and received a conductor training. He then conducted the Vienna Madrigal Association . From 1930 to 1933 Zipper was a conductor and lecturer in music theory and composition in Düsseldorf . After the " seizure of power " by the Nazis, Zipper went back to Vienna and founded the Vienna Concert Orchestra .

In 1938 Zipper was arrested because of his Jewish descent and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp , where he was the founder of the prisoners' orchestra. Together with the lyricist Jura Soyfer , he was the creator of the Dachau song . In 1939 Zipper was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and was released in the same year through payment of a ransom and a visa for Guatemala .

Zipper fled to the Philippines and founded the Manila Symphony Orchestra there , with which he remained on friendly terms throughout his life. After Japan occupied the Philippines , Zipper was briefly arrested. After his release, he worked underground and carried out intelligence work for the United States .

In 1946 Zipper moved to the USA with Trude Dubsky and took on a teaching position for the history of music and the theory of forms at the New School for Social Research in New York City . He founded the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra . In 1952, Zipper moved to Chicago and devoted himself to music education by starting a music school for children. From 1965 he was project manager for various music education programs in the Philippines, South Korea , Taiwan and Thailand . In 1972 Zipper moved to California and took a lectureship at the University of Southern California . In the 1980s he was a frequent guest conductor in China .

Zipper died in Santa Monica on April 21, 1997.

literature

  • Paul Cummins: Music in spite of everything. Herbert Zipper: From Dachau around the world Verlag Lafite Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85151-037-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dinitia Smith: Herbert Zipper, 92, Founder Of Secret Orchestra at Dachau NY Times, April 23, 1997, accessed February 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Zipper, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American composer, conductor and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1997
Place of death Santa Monica