Joseph Rosenstock

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Joseph Rosenstock (also: Josef Rosenstock ; born January 27, 1895 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary , † October 17, 1985 in New York ) was a Polish conductor and composer , he was general music director a. a. in Darmstadt , Wiesbaden , New York and Mannheim .

Life

Rosenstock worked at the Landestheater in Darmstadt (April 12, 1923: German premiere of Karol Szymanowski's opera Hagith) and at the State Opera in Wiesbaden before he was hired by the Metropolitan Opera in New York to replace Artur Bodanzky in 1928 . However, he received such bad criticism that he quit very soon. He went back to Germany, this time to Mannheim. Since his racially motivated dismissal in 1933, he worked as musical director in the Kulturbund deutscher Juden in Berlin.

In 1936 he emigrated to Japan where he was able to raise the standards of the NHK Symphony Orchestra significantly. He brought also Roh Ogura at, Beethoven to conduct symphonies. Another student was Abe Kōmei . In addition, the introduction of the conductor baton in Japan goes back to him . The harpsichordist Eta Harich-Schneider , who emigrated to Japan because of her Catholicism, describes in her autobiography how Rosenstock and Leonid Kreutzer appeared hateful to every German musician colleague.

From 1948 to 1956 he finally returned to New York and made his New York City Opera (NYCO) debut with Le nozze di Figaro . From 1952, Rosenstock was the director of NYCO for four years .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morihide Katayama: Komei ABE: Symphony No. 1 / Divertimento / Sinfonietta. Naxos, accessed April 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ das-japanische-gedaechtnis.de
  3. ↑ Harich-Schneider, Eta; Characters and disasters; Frankfurt 1978, chapter: "The war network is getting tighter"
personal data
SURNAME Rosenstock, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenstock, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1985
Place of death New York City