Kurt Schröder (conductor)
Kurt Schröder (born September 6, 1888 in Hagenow ; † January 5, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German conductor and film composer .
Life
After graduating from high school, he studied musicology in Berlin and Rostock . In addition to music, Schröder also studied German and philosophy . He began his professional career as a répétiteur in Chemnitz , he received his first engagement in 1910 as a theater conductor and actor in Königshütte , another station in his career was, among other things, the theater in Hildesheim .
He became head of the opera in Königsberg , later general music director at the Landestheater Coburg , opera director at the Stadttheater Münster and finally first conductor of the Cologne Opera . In the 1930s he composed film music , mostly in collaboration with colleagues, including Robert Stolz , Hanns Eisler and Karol Rathaus .
In 1932 he was brought to London by Alexander Korda , where Schröder wrote, among other things, the music for the famous royal biography The Private Life of Henry VIII . In 1934 he returned to Berlin. Here he continued his work as a film composer, now solely responsible. In 1942 he was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer because of his " Jewish " wife , but was allowed to continue working as a composer with a special permit.
After the end of the war he stopped working in film. From 1946 to 1953 chief conductor of the Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra , he made recordings of Richard Wagner ( Tannhäuser ) and Giuseppe Verdi ( The Sicilian Vespers ), among others .
Filmography
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Web links
- Works by and about Kurt Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Kurt Schröder (conductor) in the state bibliography MV
- Kurt Schröder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Entries in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 2.355.
Hans Rosbaud (1929–1937) | Otto Frickhoeffer (1937–1945) | Kurt Schröder (1946–1953) | Otto Matzerath (1955–1961) | Dean Dixon (1961-1974) | Eliahu Inbal (1974-1990) | Dmitri Kitajenko (1990–1997) | Hugh Wolff (1997-2006) | Paavo Järvi (2006–2013) | Andrés Orozco-Estrada (since 2014)
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| SURNAME | Schröder, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and film composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagenow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1962 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |