Max German
Max Deutsch (born November 17, 1892 in Vienna , † November 22, 1982 in Paris ) was a French composer , conductor and music teacher of Jewish - Austrian origin.
He was a pupil of Arnold Schönberg , founded the theater Der Yiddische Spiegel in Paris in 1925 and performed many works by Schönberg, Webern and Berg for the first time in France. From 1940 to 1945 he fought in the Foreign Legion . Later he did an important teaching job in Paris. Among other things, he was the teacher of Heinz-Klaus Metzger and from 1975 to 1980 of Amaury du Closel .
Works
- Opera chess , 1923
- Revue (e.g. Moulin Rouge ) and film music for Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Der Schatz (1923) and Die joudlose Gasse (1925).
Individual evidence
- ^ Albrecht Betz: Sometimes in France, constant in France. Hanns Eisler and Max Deutsch in Michel Cullin and Primavera Driessen Gruber (eds.): Douce France? Musik-Exil in France / Musiciens en Exil en France 1933-1945 . Böhlau 2008, p. 96.
Web links
- Works by and about Max Deutsch in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | German, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer, conductor and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1982 |
| Place of death | Paris |