Paul Dessau : Partitions moyen

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...

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...

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...