biography
pronunciation:
[volf]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1971)
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| biography:
| Music teacher and composer, born in Hanover, Germany. Forced by the Nazis to abandon a promising career as an opera conductor and transcriber of modern operas for piano, he went to New York and was assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera (1938–47). In 1948 he joined the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and there, at Tanglewood, and in private lessons in New York, he taught two generations of American singers. He composed over 200 Lieder in the classic vein, which are now being published and increasingly sung in public. |
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