Ernst Roth

Ernst Roth ( born June 1, 1896 in Prague, † July 17, 1971 in Twickenham, United Kingdom ) was an Austrian music publisher, music writer and lawyer of Jewish faith.

Life

Ernst Roth, who has already received piano lessons at the age of five, studied from 1915 at the University of Prague, law, philosophy and music theory and received his doctorate in 1921 as a lawyer. He then studied in Vienna under Guido Adler musicology. After military service in World War I, he was the beginning of the 1920s, editor of the Vienna Philharmonic publisher. In his other publishing activities by Universal Edition Vienna, he devoted himself particularly the revision of the piano works of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms; In addition, he wrote more than one hundred professional articles and three novels.

After the "Anschluss " of Austria to the " Greater German Reich " and the associated " linearization " of the Universal Edition in 1938 Roth went into exile in London, where he still entered the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in the same year. Here he translated many operas and choral works, including Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky, into German and created piano reductions and arrangements of works by famous composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Roth took over temporarily the Publishing Director and served until his death in 1971, the publishing house in leadership positions - interrupted in 1940 by a brief internment in a camp on the Isle of Man, but thanks to the efforts of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams lasted just four months.