Milton Weber
Milton Franklin Weber (born May 30, 1910 in Graz , † October 28, 1968 in Evanston , Illinois ), was an American violinist , conductor and music teacher of Austrian origin.
Life
Born as Alois Weber, he was given the surname Gogg as part of an adoption , but called himself Milton Franklin Weber after his emigration to the USA.
Weber received his musical training at the Graz Conservatory (1928–1934), a. a. with Hermann Ritter von Schmeidel , and then worked there as a teacher. He was also active as a soloist and conductor .
Married to a Jew , he had to emigrate to the USA via Italy after the occupation of Austria by the German Wehrmacht .
After military service and university studies, Weber was appointed professor at Carroll College in Waukesha ( Wisconsin ) in 1947 and then in 1962 at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee . In Waukesha he founded (1947) a symphony orchestra that was widely recognized. In 1957 Weber was promoted to director of the Music for Youth project in Milwaukee , which he further developed with great success. In 1966 he gave up all his functions in Wisconsin and moved to Nevada before he was appointed professor of conducting at the College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago in 1967. However, just one year later, Milton Weber died of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 58 .
Web links
- Milton Weber in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Milton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gogg, Alois (adoptive name); Weber, Alois (maiden name); Weber, Milton Franklin (full assumed name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1968 |
| Place of death | Evanston , Illinois |