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Artist
Karol Rathaus
12+ albums
composergermanUkrainianClassical20th Century
about
A prominent figure in the milieu of Germany’s intellectual and artistic life of the 1920’s, Karol Rathaus was regarded as one of that nation’s most promising composers. Rathaus had heard his music premiered by the world’s finest orchestras and played as sound tracks for the earliest talking motion pictures. His compositions also won him prizes, earned him commissions, opened the door to his restoration of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov for the Metropolitan Opera, and contributed to his shaping the tone and standard of what is today the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York. He studied music with composer Franz Schreker. Orchestral and stage works by Rathaus were premiered by George Szell, Eugen Jochum, Erich Kleiber and Wilhelm Furtwangler. In 1931 Rathaus composed his first film score. Film was a medium in which he continued to work for another twenty years. His dance score for the Ballet Russe was premiered at Covent Garden in 1937. Rathaus immigrated to the United States in 1938. In 1940, joined the music faculty of Queens College, which was only three years old. Though his music never achieved the degree of recognition in America it had enjoyed in Europe, he was always busy, often composing on commission, from, for example, the New York Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony, the LouisvilleOrchestra, and the Queens College Choral Society. Eminent musicians, such as the Galimir Quartet and pianist Artur Rubinstein programmed his wor
top songs
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Pastorale und Tanz: Pastorale
472Pastorale und Tanz: Tanz
423Der letzte Pierrot (Transcr. Rathaus for Piano): Tanz der Arbeiter
274Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 20: III. Fuge. Andante con moto
265Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier op. 21
236Pastorale
177Polichinelle
158Danse
129Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier op. 21 (1927)
1110Prelude and Gigue in A major for orchestra (Op.44)
11albums
Rathaus: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
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Rathaus: Piano Music, Vol. 1
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Portrait Bronislaw Gimpel (Violin Concertos & Violin Sonatas in recordings for RIAS Berlin, 1954-1957)
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Legendary Recordings
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Rathaus: Der letzte Pierrot (Transcr. Rathaus for Piano): Tanz der Arbeiter
Expressionismus
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Rathaus: Chamber Music
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Rathaus: Symphony No. 1; Der letzte Pierrot
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Die Zwanziger Jahre
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Laks: L'Hirondelle inattendue
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Karol Rathaus: Chamber Works
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Karol Rathaus: Works for Violin and Piano