Paul Dessau
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| Born |
19 December 1894 Hamburg, German Empire |
| Died | 28 June 1979 (aged 84) Königs Wusterhausen, GDR |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Composer and Conductor |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Berghaus |
| Children | Maxim Dessau |
Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 – 28 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor.
Dessau was born in Hamburg into a musical family. His grandfather, Moses Berend Dessau, was a cantor in the Hamburg synagogue (Hennenberg 2001); his uncle, Professor Bernhard Dessau, was Konzertmeister (English: leader, lead violinist, or concertmaster) at the Royal Opera House, Unter den Linden; his cousin, Max Winterfeld, became generally known under the name Jean Gilbert as a composer of operettas (Hennenberg 2001); and his second cousin, Robert Gerson Muller-Hartmann, was a composer and collaborator with Ralph Vaughan Williams.
From 1909 he majored in violin, studying under Florian Zajic at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. In 1912 he became répétiteur at the City Theatre (Stadttheater) in Hamburg. There he studied the work of the conductors Felix Weingartner and Arthur Nikisch and took classes in composition from Max Julius Loewengard. He was second Kapellmeister at the Tivoli Theatre in Bremen in 1914 before being drafted for military service in 1915 (Hennenberg 2001).
After World War I he became conductor at the Intimate Theatre (Kammerspiele), Hamburg, and was répétiteur and later Kapellmeister at the opera house in Cologne under Otto Klemperer between 1919 and 1923. In 1923 he became Kapellmeister in Mainz and from 1925 Principal Kapellmeister at the Städtische Oper Berlin under Bruno Walter (Hennenberg 2001).
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