Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau, whose collaboration with Bertolt Brecht made a significant impression in the consciousness of music-lovers, is an extremely versatile composer. Two short pieces from his piano works are n...

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was...

Although Paul Dessau's Second String Quartet is very closely related to twelve-note music, it cannot be said to owe its inspiration to the serial method in the strictest sense. René Leibowitz had intr...

Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a s...

Ces deux pièces pour flûte et piano - jusqu'à présent impubliées - ont été composées par Paul Dessau peu de temps après son émigration en France et elles ne furent découvertes qu'en 1992, lors de l' e...

De plus en plus d'études le montrent: l'apprentissage d'un instrument favorise le développement de l'intelligence et de la compétence à apprendre. Paul Dessau a fait cette expérience dès 1948, lorsque...

Paul Dessau a dédié ce petit chef-d'oeuvre d'humour à la petite-fille de Bertold Brecht, Johanna Stephanie Brecht. La Petite musique de nuit (Kleine Nachtmusik) de Mozart, est ici transposée en Toute...

The successful operetta composer Jean Gilbert (pseudonym of Max Winterfeld) was a cousin of Paul Dessau. Dessau composed the piece for the wedding of Mariana Stark, a relative of both Paul Dessau and...

Paul Dessau, whose collaboration with Bertolt Brecht made a significant impression in the consciousness of music-lovers, is an extremely versatile composer. Two short pieces from his piano works are n...

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was...

Although Paul Dessau's Second String Quartet is very closely related to twelve-note music, it cannot be said to owe its inspiration to the serial method in the strictest sense. René Leibowitz had intr...

Paul Dessau described his Third String Quartet, begun at Laguna Beach near Los Angeles in 1943, as predominantly lyrical. The song-like, melodious main theme of this one-movement work emerges from a s...