Leo Taubmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leo Taubmann (born April 20, 1907 in Königsberg ; died July 1966 in Manhattan , New York City ) was a German pianist and song accompanist who was banned from working in Hitler's Germany and had to emigrate to the USA.

life and work

As a Jew, Taubmann was banned from working in National Socialist Germany as early as 1933 . In August 1935 he was expelled from the Reich Music Chamber . After that he was only able to perform within the Jewish cultural scene, for example at the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin and Hamburg. One of these concerts was an evening of songs and arias in Hamburg in 1936 with Sabine Kalter with works by Meyerbeer , Verdi , Saint-Saëns , Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Schumann and Robert Franz . On March 20, 1937, he accompanied the singer at a recital in Berlin, this time with works by Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Meyerbeer and Dvořák . He must have spent a long time in Vienna, because in Austrian Information (Volume 36, Issue 7/8) he is listed as a prominent representative of Viennese Judaism - between Richard Tauber and Bruno Walter . He managed to emigrate to the United States in time.

In 1956 and 1960 he was hired as a song accompanist at the Salzburg Festival , for concerts with Cesare Siepi and Cesare Valletti . The Cesare Siepi concert was also released on record. It included works by Mozart , Rossini , Schumann , Verdi , Gomes , Boito and Ravel . He was also the pianist of a Valletti Town Hall recital in New York . He also accompanied a number of other well-known singers, for example George London , Birgit Nilsson , Yannula Pappas , Suzanne Sten and Lucretia West .

He also taught.

Web links

source

  • Regina Thumser: Displaced Musicians, Fates and Networks in Exile 1933–1945 , University of Salzburg, Diss., 1998

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Müller-Wesemann: Theater as intellectual resistance , Der Jüdische Kulturbund in Hamburg 1934–1941, Springer-Verlag 2016, p. 533
  2. ↑ LexM: Sabine Kalter , accessed on June 13, 2020
  3. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (ed.): The taste of transience , Jüdische Sommerfrische in Salzburg, Böhlau Verlag Vienna 2002, p. 354 (contribution by Regina Thumser)
  4. ^ New York Times : LEO TAUBMAN, 59 ACCOMPANIST, DIES; Played for Top Singers Also Active as Teacher , July 18, 1966
personal data
SURNAME Deaf man, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and accompanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH July 1966
Place of death New York City