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Berthold Goldschmidt
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Berthold Goldschmidt (b. Hamburg, 18 January 1903; d. London, 17 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his "anachronistic" lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade. Goldschmidt's musical career began in earnest during the heyday of the Weimar Republic in Germ
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Berthold
- Family name
- Goldschmidt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- University of Hamburg
- Employer
- BBC
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Student of
- Franz Schreker
- Genre
- opera
- Image
- Goldschmidt Berthold.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1903-01-18
- date of death
- 1996-10-17
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