Kurt Schindler

Kurt Schindler ( born February 17, 1882 in Berlin, † November 16, 1935 in New York ) was a German - American conductor and composer.

Kurt Schindler studied music in Berlin and Munich, among others Ludwig Thuille and Conrad Ansorge. In 1902 he made ​​his debut as a composer on the music festival in Krefeld. There he learned important colleagues such as Gustav Mahler, Karl Adolf Lorenz and Richard Strauss know to whom he partly for years remained on friendly terms. After assistantships as conductor of the Stuttgart Opera, the Court Opera Unter den Linden under Richard Strauss as well as in Würzburg Schindler emigrated to the USA in 1905. In New York, he served from 1905-1908 as an assistant of the conductor at the Metropolitan Opera. In 1909 he founded the 160 -member MacDowell Choir ( later in Schola Cantorum renamed) ( 1909-1926 ), the contemporary works, old and folk music interpreted and until 1920 was under his leadership. With the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the choir often worked together and worked, among other things 1912 at the U.S. premiere of Debussy's The Martyrdom of Saint Sébastien with. In his capacity as editor of arrangements for choir as well as a musicologist, Schindler devoted primarily Russian, Spanish and Yiddish folk music. 1919 and 1928-1930, he traveled to Europe, especially Spain and Portugal, where he put a comprehensive folk music collection.

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