Kurt Hager, Ruth Berghaus, Werner Rackwitz, Paul Dessau and Hans-Joachim Hoffmann [de] in 1974
Born
(1894-12-19)19 December 1894
Hamburg, German Empire
Died
28 June 1979(1979-06-28) (aged 84)
Königs Wusterhausen, GDR
Nationality
German
Education
Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory
Occupations
Composer
Conductor
Spouse
Ruth Berghaus
Children
Maxim Dessau
Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 – 28 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them.
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musical score and songs by Swiss composer Huldreich Georg Früh. Today, PaulDessau's composition of the songs from 1947 to 1948, also authorized by Brecht...
Weigel, his main actress and later also director, as Mother Courage. PaulDessau supplied a new score, composed in close collaboration with Brecht himself...
characters is called the Singer. In 1944 the production was scored by PaulDessau. Though there is no officially published score, the show is generally...
Edited by Hal C. Kern Music by Franz Waxman Uncredited: Edward Rebner PaulDessau Production company Vanguard Films Distributed by Selznick Releasing Organization...
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Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by PaulDessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931)...
the Zurich production), then by the comedian Curt Bois. The composer PaulDessau wrote a musical setting for the songs for this production, while Casper...
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points. The school existed in three German cities—Weimar, from 1919 to 1925; Dessau, from 1925 to 1932; and Berlin, from 1932 to 1933—under three different...
that tradition. Notable East German composers include Hanns Eisler, PaulDessau, Ernst Hermann Meyer, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, and Kurt Schwaen. The birthplace...
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simply Freiheit "Freiheit" (song), a 1936 song by Gudrun Kabisch and PaulDessau Jiyū no Tsubasa or Die Flügel der Freiheit (song), a song by Linked Horizon...
Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, featuring the theatre score by PaulDessau. In parallel with his early excursions in experimental theatre, Glass...
The score of this three-part film was composed by Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith and PaulDessau. A year later, Reiniger co-directed her first live-action film...
Cinematography George Robinson Edited by Arthur Hilton Music by Lloyd Akridge PaulDessau Distributed by Universal Pictures Release date June 20, 1945 (1945-06-20)...
Raabe. She also regularly performs songs by Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler and PaulDessau set to Brecht's texts. In 2000, her song "Schön ist die Welt" became...