Paul Dessau

The Concertino for solo violin, flute, clarinet and horn was composed in 1924 as an entry for a competition organised by the publishers B. Schott's Söhne. Entrants were required to submit a 'compositi...

The String Trio of 1927 was composed several years after Paul Dessau's first major success as a composer, which was marked by the prizewinning Concertino in 1924. After working for several years as a...

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...

The Concertino for solo violin, flute, clarinet and horn was composed in 1924 as an entry for a competition organised by the publishers B. Schott's Söhne. Entrants were required to submit a 'compositi...

The String Trio of 1927 was composed several years after Paul Dessau's first major success as a composer, which was marked by the prizewinning Concertino in 1924. After working for several years as a...

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...

These two unpublished pieces for flute and piano were written shortly after Paul Dessau's emigration to France and were not rediscovered until 1992, when Dessau's unpublished works were looked through...

Increasing numbers of recent studies provide evidence that learning to play an instrument stimulates the intelligence and promotes a general aptitude for learning. Paul Dessau realised this as early a...

Everybody who loves Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will get sheer pleasure out of this amusing little work which includes - as the title suggests - two small glass chamber pots used...

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...