Richard Lert
Richard Lert (actually Levi ; born September 19, 1885 in Vienna , † April 25, 1980 in Mountain View , California ) was an Austrian - American conductor .
Life
Lert attended the university in his hometown . He came from Düsseldorf , where he had worked since 1910, via the Darmstadt Opera House (since 1912, here he married the writer Vicky Baum in 1916) , Frankfurt am Main (from 1916) and Kiel .
After the birth of their first son Wolfgang in Kiel in 1917, the family moved to Hanover that same year , where Lert worked as the first conductor and head of the opera at the municipal theaters . The family initially lived at Dieterrichsstrasse 11 in Hanover's Mitte district , from 1921 to 1923 on the ground floor of what was then Podbielskistraße 335 (today: number 53) in List .
In 1923 he became general music director at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and first conductor of the city of Mannheim . In 1928 he went to Berlin , where he was guest conductor at the State Opera Unter den Linden and the Berlin Philharmonic .
After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he emigrated in 1933 to Pasadena , where he long inter alia, the Civic Orchestra Association and over twenty years of Music Academy of Santa Barbara headed. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and has been a guest conductor at major opera houses and orchestras around the world.
literature
- Siegmund Kaznelson (ed.): Jews in the German cultural area. A compilation . 3rd edition. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1962.
- Heinz Rahlfs : Richard Lert , in: Life and Fate. On the inauguration of the synagogue in Hanover , with photos by Hermann Friedrich et al., Publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hanover, press office, in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Hanover eV, Hanover: [Beeck in commission], [1963], pp. 166–170
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
Web links
- Richard Lert , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 26/1955 from June 20, 1955, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Richard Lert in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era (LexM)
Individual evidence
- ^ Corinna Heins, Anne Jäger: Women in the List / ... Vicky Baum, author (1888–1960) , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Vol. 60 (2006), pp. 251–254; here: p. 252
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lert, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1980 |
| Place of death | Mountain View , California |