Karol Rathaus

Karol Rathaus ( town hall Bruno Karl Leonhard, Leonhard pseudonym Bruno, born September 16, 1895 in Tarnopol, Galicia, † November 21, 1954 in Flushing / New York City ) was a composer of German- Austrian nationality, who emigrated to the United States.

Life

Hall was married to Gerta and had a son named Bernt.

He began to compose at an early age and began 1913/1914 to study at the Academy of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna, which was interrupted by his military service in World War I 1918/1919. As one of the favorite pupil of Franz Schreker he followed this up at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he continued to study music and composition. After graduation, held town hall in the 1920s, the position of a teacher of composition and music theory at the Berlin Academy of Music. His first compositions followed, with whom he created a furore and great successes celebrated.

After his 1930 his opera strangers earth Hall also created film music and was among the artistically outstanding film composers in Germany before 1933. He wrote the music for three films Fyodor Ozeps. In 1933 he went to Paris and lived from 1934 to 1938 in London, before he finally settled in New York. There he was appointed to a professorship in composition at Queens College, in this position, he brought it to prestige and popularity. In addition, he has continued as a composer, very productive. In addition to commissioned works, he also wrote several film scores. He died in 1954 in New York.

His compositional work consists mainly of instrumental works, such as symphonies, orchestral works, serenades, sonatas and ballets. His compositions he saw in the tradition of Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky and his teacher Franz Schreker.

Karol Rathaus made ​​in the early 1930s until his emigration primarily as a composer of film scores a name. In the Third Reich, his compositions were classified as "degenerate art" and assigned a performance ban.

Works (selection)

  • Film music for " The murderer Dimitri Karamazov " (1930 /31)
  • Film music for " Amok" (1934 )
  • Film music for " Let Us Live" (1939 )
  • Film music for " Histadrut. Builder of a nation " (1945 )
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