Upcoming lecture recitals
(168) Tuesday, 28. January 2025, Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto-Saal, 20 hFrom Berlin to Jerusalem. Stefan Wolpe's pupil Wolf Rosenberg (1915-1996)
When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Stefan Wolpe had to flee immediately because he had publicly opposed the Nazis as a convinced communist and artistic director of the agitprop theater "Truppe 31". Stations of his odyssey were Prague, Zurich and Vienna (where he studied with Anton Webern), and finally Palestine. At the newly founded conservatory in Jerusalem he started to teach composing in 1935, and his wife Irma Schoenberg taught piano.
Wolf Rosenberg, born 1915 in Dresden and orphaned as a small child, grew up with his grandfather in Berlin. He studied philosophy, history and art history in Bologna and Florence. In 1936 he received a scholarship to study at Jerusalem Conservatory. When he studied composing with Stefan Wolpe, he met several old acquaintances from Berlin: Herbert Brün, Peter Jona Korn, and Haim Alexander. Both Wolpe and Rosenberg were critical to Zionism and they moved on even before Israel had been founded as a state. Wolpe went to America, and Rosenberg returned to Germany via Cyprus and Switzerland.
Wolf Rosenberg: String quartet No. 2, performed by Seneca Quartett (Berlin); piano music by Wolpe, Brün and Rosenberg, performed by Angelika Nebel; excerpts from the piece for electronics Nights at the Opera. Albrecht Dümling and Reinhard Flender talk with Pamela Rosenberg.
Following lecture recitals
(169) 27. February 2025: Double persecution. Jewish composers under Hitler and Stalin
(170) 22. May 2025: Issay Dobrowen (1891-1953) - a cosmopolitan in Oslo
Entrance fee: 8 Euros
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