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Stefan Wolpe. 1902 – 1972. Born at the turn of the 20th century, Stefan Wolpe belonged to a generation of composers in the German cultural orbit who believed that modern art was a means of transforming both the individual and society. Wolpe was imbued with the idea that avant-garde art can serve the man on the street and the audience in the ...
Stefan Wolpe ( Berlino, 25 agosto 1902 – New York, 4 aprile 1972) è stato un compositore tedesco naturalizzato statunitense. Fuggì a Vienna, separandosi dalla moglie e dalla figlia. Qui si sposò nel 1927 e di nuovo nel 1934. Andò in Palestina e nel 1938 si trasferì negli Stati Uniti dove si sposò per la terza volta.
Irma Schoenberg (1902-1984) and Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) first became acquainted in 1927, when Irma was teaching Jacques-Dalcroze eurhythmics at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik and preparing for her concert debut, while Stefan was composing music for the theater and, with Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, organizing concerts for the Novembergruppe, an association of radical socialist painters ...
Born, Berlin, 25 August, 1902; died, New York City, 4 April 1972. Unlike his immediate contemporaries Hanns Eisler, Ernst Krenek, Vladimir Vogel, and Kurt Weill, Wolpe did not gain recognition as a professional composer early in his career. . Vladimir Vogel, who was a student of Busoni and later was also involved in the workers’ music ...
23 de may. de 2011 · Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972): Symphony (1956).1. Not too slow2. Charged3. AliveOrchestra of the 20th Century diretta da Arthur Weisberg.***The music published in...
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Wolpe on Wolpe. A sampling of Wolpe’s comments on his compositions. Wolpe wrote formal program notes for only a few of his compositions. Additional remarks have been compiled from lectures and correspondence. The original documents are in the Stefan Wolpe Collection, Paul Sacher Foundation, unless noted otherwise.
German composer Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) began his career in the socialist cabarets of Weimar Germany and ended it a respected musician in New York's Bohemian art world. Wolpe played piano in Berlin's agitprop cafés until the rise of Nazism; after studying with Anton Webern in Vienna, he settled in Palestine and, in 1942, New York City.
