Kurt Schröder
Kurt Schroeder ( born September 6, 1888 in Hagenow; † January 5, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German conductor and composer.
Life
After high school, with school, he studied in Berlin and Rostock musicology. Schröder studied in addition to music and German literature and philosophy. He began his career as a coach in Chemnitz, he received his first appointment in 1910 as a theater conductor and actor in Chorzow, another stage of his career was, among others, the theater in Hildesheim.
He became director of the opera in Königsberg and later music director at the Coburg State Theatre, Opera Director at the Stadttheater Münster and finally principal 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 taken by Alexander Korda to London, where Schröder to the famous King Biography The Private Life of Henry VIII created among other things the music. In 1934 he returned to Berlin. Here he continued, now solely responsible for his work as a film composer continued. In 1942 he was expelled because of his " Jewish " wife of the Reich Music Chamber, but was allowed to be with a special permit continued to work as a composer.
After the war he finished his work in film. From 1946 to 1953 chief conductor of the symphony orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk, he has made recordings, among others, Richard Wagner ( Tannhauser ) and Giuseppe Verdi ( The Sicilian Vespers ).