Karl Alwin
Karl Alwin often also Carl Alwin (formerly: Alwin Oskar Pinkus ; born April 15, 1891 in Königsberg , Germany , † October 15, 1945 in Mexico City , Mexico ) was a German conductor .
Alwin studied philosophy, literature and music in Berlin (with Engelbert Humperdinck and Hugo Kaun ). After completing his training, he worked at the Berlin Court Opera from 1910 and as an assistant in Bayreuth from 1912. He then conducted in Halle (Saale) in 1913 , in Posen in 1914 , in Düsseldorf from 1915 to 1917 and then in Hamburg until 1920 . From 1920 to 1938 he conducted at the Vienna State Opera until after the takeover by the Nazis with a professional disqualification was occupied. Alwin had to emigrate to the USA because of his Jewish origins , but after the 1939/40 season he went to Mexico at the Chicago Civic Opera and conducted in Mexico City at the Opera Nacional from 1941 until his death in 1945 and taught at the state conservatory.
From 1920 to 1933 he was married to the soprano Elisabeth Schumann .
literature
- Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
- Austrian music lexicon . Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 .
Web links
- Works by and about Karl Alwin in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alwin, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1945 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |