Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 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. Biography Dessau was born in Hamburg into a musical family. his cousin, Max Winterfeld, became known under the name Jean Gilbert as a composer of operettas; From 1909, Dessau studied with Florian Zajic at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, majoring in violin. Dessau died on 28 June 1979 at the age of 84, in Königs Wusterhausen, on the outskirts of Berlin. * Einstein, 1969–1973, libretto by Karl Mickel, 16 February 1974 Further reading and documentary * Dessau, Paul. Notizen zu Noten, ed. Fritz Henneberg (Reclam, Leipzig 1974). * Dessau, Paul. Aus Gesprächen (VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1974). * Henneberg, Fritz. Dessau – Brecht. Musikalische Arbeiten. (Henschel, Berlin 1963). * Hennenberg, Fritz. Paul Dessau. Eine Biographie. (VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1965). * Lucchesi, Joachim (ed.). Das Verhör in der Oper: Die Debatte um die Aufführung “Das Verhör des Lukullus” von Bertolt Brecht und Paul Dessau (BasisDruck, Berlin 1993). * Paul Dessau - Let´s Hop