Walter Damrosch |

Walter Damrosch

Indodana kaLeopold Damrosch. Wafundela uyise umculo, kanye noF. Dreseke noV. Rishbiter eDresden; ukudlala upiyano no-F. Inten, B. Bökelman kanye noM. Pinner e-USA; wafunda eqhuba ngaphansi kokuqondisa kuka-X. Bulow. Kusukela ngo-1871 wayehlala e-USA. Waqala umsebenzi wakhe wokuba umqhubi njengomsizi kayise. Ngemva kokufa kwakhe ngo-1885-91, waqondisa iqembu laseJalimane eMetropolitan Opera eNew York, futhi wahola i-Oratorio Society (1885-98) kanye ne-Symphony Society (1885-1903). Ngo-1895 wahlela i-Damrosch Opera Company, avakashela ngayo i-United States futhi wenza imidlalo ye-opera ka-R. Wagner. Wabuye wenza ama-opera akhe eMetropolitan Opera (1900-02).

Kusukela ngo-1903 kuya ku-27 wayengumqhubi we-New York Philharmonic Society Symphony Orchestra. Ngale orchestra ngo-1926 wenza ikhonsathi yokuqala emsakazweni weNational Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). Ngo-1927-47 umeluleki womculo ku-NBC. Ngokokuqala ngqa e-USA wenza inqwaba yemisebenzi emikhulu yabaqambi baseYurophu, okuhlanganisa nama-symphonies yesi-3 neyesine ye-Brahms, ama-symphonies yesi-4 neyesi-4 kaTchaikovsky, i-Wagner's Parsifal (ekhonsathini, ngo-6).

Ukwakhiwa:

ama-opera - "I-Scarlet Letter" (I-Scarlet Letter, esekelwe kunoveli ka-Hawthorne, 1896, Boston), "Ijuba Lokuthula" (Ijuba Lokuthula, 1912, New York), "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1913, ibid .), “Umuntu ongenalo izwe” (The Man Without a Country, 1937, ibid.), “Cloak” (The Opera Cloak, 1942, ibid.); i-sonata ye-violin nepiyano; yekwaya ne-orchestra - uManila Te Deum (1898), Iculo lika-Abraham Lincoln (1936), iDunkirk (ye-baritone, ikwaya yabesilisa ne-orchestra yasegumbini, 1943); izingoma, kuhl. Ukufa kanye noJenene Putnam (1936); umculo nokusebenza idrama yaseshashalazini - "Iphigenia in Aulis" kanye "Medea" ka-Euripides (1915), "Electra" kaSophocles (1917).

Imisebenzi yemibhalo: Impilo yami yomculo, NY, 1923, 1930.