Gustav Brecher
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Gustav Brecher was a German conductor, composer, and music critic. As director of the Leipzig Opera, he conducted world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill, including Jonny spielt auf an
Gustav Brecher between 1903 and 1911; photograph by Rudolf Dührkoop
Brecher also conducted the world premiere of Ernst Krenek's opera
Stolperstein for Gustav Brecher in front of the Hamburgische Staatsoper
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann. It was first performed on 9 March 1930 at t
Gustav Brecher
…music critic. As director of the Leipzig Opera, he conducted world premieres of works by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill, including Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933, lived at risk in Stalingrad, Berlin, Prague, and finally Ostend, where he took his life together with his wife's…
Weill in 1932