Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe · Arts & Literature
Classical composer
1902, Berlin, Germany — 1972, New York City, USA
Germany · Mandatory Palestine · United States
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Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer, born in Berlin to Jewish parents, whose modernist music absorbed the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater, bebop and Arab classical music. A Jew and a communist, he fled Nazi Germany in 1933, lived in Vienna and Jerusalem, and settled in New York in 1938, teaching at Black Mountain College and influencing a generation of American composers. His densely eclectic, uncompromising style made him a key figure of mid-century musical modernism.
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Classical composer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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