Walter Damrosch |

Walter Damrosch

Mwana wa Leopold Damrosch. Anaphunzira nyimbo ndi abambo ake, komanso F. Dreseke ndi V. Rishbiter ku Dresden; kuimba piyano ndi F. Inten, B. Bökelman ndi M. Pinner ku USA; anaphunzira kuchita motsogoleredwa ndi X. Bulow. Kuyambira 1871 anakhala ku USA. Anayamba ntchito yake ngati kondakitala ngati wothandizira bambo ake. Atamwalira mu 1885-91, adatsogolera gulu la Germany ku Metropolitan Opera ku New York, komanso adatsogolera Oratorio Society (1885-98) ndi Symphony Society (1885-1903). Mu 1895 adakonza kampani ya Damrosch Opera, yomwe adayendera nayo United States ndikukonza zisudzo za R. Wagner. Anachitanso zisudzo zake ku Metropolitan Opera (1900-02).

Kuyambira 1903 mpaka 27 anali wochititsa New York Philharmonic Society Symphony Orchestra. Ndi orchestra iyi mu 1926 adapereka konsati yoyamba pa wailesi ya National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC). Mu 1927-47 mlangizi wanyimbo ku NBC. Kwa nthawi yoyamba iye anachita ku USA ntchito zingapo zazikulu za oimba a ku Ulaya, kuphatikizapo 3 ndi 4 symphonies ya Brahms, 4 ndi 6 symphonies Tchaikovsky, Wagner's Parsifal (mu konsati, 1896).

Zolemba:

machitidwe - "The Scarlet Letter" (The Scarlet Letter, yochokera m'buku la Hawthorne, 1896, Boston), "Nkhunda Yamtendere" (Nkhunda Yamtendere, 1912, New York), "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1913, ibid .), “Munthu Wopanda Dziko Lakwawo” ( The Man Without a Country, 1937, ibid.), “Cloak” ( The Opera Cloak, 1942, ibid.); sonata ya violin ndi piyano; kwaya ndi okhestra - Manila Te Deum (1898), An Abraham Lincoln Song (1936), Dunkirk (ya baritone, kwaya yachimuna ndi okhestra yachipinda, 1943); nyimbo, inc. Imfa ndi General Putnam (1936); nyimbo ndi machitidwe zisudzo - "Iphigenia ku Aulis" ndi "Medea" ndi Euripides (1915), "Electra" ndi Sophocles (1917).

Ntchito zamalemba: Moyo wanga wanyimbo, NY, 1923, 1930.