Conductor; born 1903 in Berlin, died 4 December 1960 in Sheffield.
Biography
The conductor Walter Goehr was born in Berlin in 1903, where he was later a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. He became a conductor at the Berliner Rundfunk between 1925 and 1931, emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1933.
Between 1933 and 1939 he was a conductor and music director of Columbia Records. In 1942, Goehr became a conductor, composer and arranger for the BBC, and from 1943 was on the staff at Morley College in London.
He also conducted the UK premiere of Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie in 1953. Walter died in City Hall, Sheffield, on December 4th 1960, immediately after conducting a performance of Handel's Messiah. Walter's son, Alexander Goehr, is a composer living in the United Kingdom.
Links and Sources
on IMDB.
Goehr, Lydia. ‘Music and Musicians in Exile: The Romantic Legacy of a Double Life’ in ‘Driven Into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States’. Ed. Reinhold Brinkmann, Christoph Wolf. (London: University of California Press, 1998) pp. 66-71.