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Walter Goehr

Walter Goehr
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Birth 28 may 1903
Death 4 december 1960 (at 57 years)

Walter Goehr (né à Berlin le 28 mai 1903, décédé à Sheffield, le 4 décembre 1960) est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre allemand naturalisé anglais.

Biography

Goehr est né à Berlin où il a étudié d'abord avec Ernst Krenek puis à l'Académie des arts avec Arnold Schoenberg et s'est lancé dans une carrière de chef d'orchestre en travaillant pour la Radio de Berlin de 1925 à 1932. Il est forcé comme juif de chercher un emploi en dehors de l'Allemagne et se fixe en Angleterre en 1933 sous le nom de Georg Walter jusqu'en 1948. Il a travaillé pour la Columbia Record Company (1933-39). En 1937, il a dirigé l'Orchestre philharmonique de Londres dans le premier enregistrement de la Symphonie en ut de Bizet.

Il était l'un des nombreux musiciens d'origine européenne et de grande formation recrutés par Michael Tippett pour faire partie du personnel enseignant du Morley College de 1943 à 1960. En plus d'enseigner la composition, il a également formé des élèves à la direction d'orchestre, dont l'une était la jeune Wally Stott, plus tard connue comme Angela Morley.

Entre 1946 et 1949 il a été chef de l'Orchestre du Théâtre de la BBC (le prédécesseur de l'actuel Orchestre symphonique de la BBC) et il a dirigé la plupart des orchestres de Londres.

Goehr a effectué de nombreuses créations importantes à Morley, dont la première représentation britannique des Vespro della Beata Vergine de Monteverdi. En 1952, il a réalisé le premier enregistrement de L'incoronazione di Poppea de Claudio Monteverdi, conduisant de l'Orchestre de la Tonhalle de Zurich lors d'une représentation sur scène. La Version LP a été publiée en 1954 et a remporté un Grand Prix du Disque en 1954.

Il a créé la Sérénade pour ténor, cor et cordes de Benjamin Britten (15 octobre 1943). De même il a créé A Child of Our Time de Michael Tippett le 19 mars 1944, à Londres. Il a conduit la première britannique de la Turangalîla-Symphonie d'Olivier Messiaen en 1953.

Il est mort à l'hôtel de ville de Sheffield, Royaume-Uni, le 4 décembre 1960 immédiatement après la fin d'une exécution du Messie de Haendel.

Son fils Alexander Goehr est un compositeur qui vit au Royaume-Uni.

Best films

Great Expectations (1946)
(Conductor)

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Filmography of Walter Goehr (10 films)

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Betrayed
Betrayed (1954)
, 1h48
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O. E. Hasse, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60% 3.0476853.0476853.0476853.0476853.047685
Betrayed is an espionage thriller set in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, and revolves mostly around the Dutch resistance movement.
I'll Get You for This, 1h27
Directed by Joseph M. Newman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Raft, Coleen Gray, Enzo Staiola, Charles Goldner, Walter Rilla, Martin Benson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59% 2.958862.958862.958862.958862.95886
American gambler Nick Cain (Raft) arrives at the town of San Paola, and befriends shoe-shine boy Toni (Staiola). He discovers he has been framed for the murder of a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly (Gray) to a village, leaving her to hide out. Cain gets help from Massine (Goldner), whom he does not trust. He uncovers an international counterfeiting ring, members of which are responsible for the murder.
Stop Press Girl, 1h18
Directed by Michael Barry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford, James Robertson Justice, Kenneth More, Naunton Wayne
Roles Conductor
Rating60% 3.046243.046243.046243.046243.04624
Jennifer Peters is a normal girl except for one unfortunate trait. All the women in her family stop any mechanical contrivance that they travel in. As the film progresses, Jennifer stops her boyfriend's automobile, then a train she travels in without being aware of what she does. Tension mounts when a girlfriend takes ill and Jennifer takes her job; an air hostess on a Liberator airliner!
Great Expectations, 1h58
Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors John Mills, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie
Roles Conductor
Rating77% 3.896443.896443.896443.896443.89644
Orphan Phillip "Pip" Pirrip (Anthony Wager) lives with his shrewish older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery (Bernard Miles). One day, Pip runs into an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), who intimidates the boy into getting him some food and a file for his chains. Magwitch is caught when he attacks a hated fellow escapee, and is taken back to the prison ship.
A Matter of Life and Death, 1h34
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about angels, Political films
Actors David Niven, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey
Roles Conductor
Rating79% 3.9969753.9969753.9969753.9969753.996975
Squadron Leader Peter Carter (David Niven) is a British Royal Air Force pilot trying to fly a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber home after a mission over Germany on 2 May 1945. He has ordered his crew to bail out, without revealing that his own parachute has been shot up. He manages to contact June (Kim Hunter), an American radio operator based in England, and talks with her for a few minutes before jumping without a parachute.
I Know Where I'm Going!, 1h31
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney, John Laurie
Roles Conductor
Rating73% 3.696233.696233.696233.696233.69623
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is a young middle class Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit. She knows where she's going, or at least she thinks she does. She travels from her home in Manchester to the Hebrides to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a very wealthy, much older industrialist, on the (fictitious) Isle of Kiloran.
The Ghost Train, 1h25
Directed by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays, Comedy horror films
Actors Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Morland Graham, Herbert Lomas
Roles Music
Rating61% 3.0970453.0970453.0970453.0970453.097045
Tommy Gander (Arthur Askey), a vaudeville comedian, pulls the communication cord on a GWR express train, bringing it to a stop so he can retrieve his hat. Returning to the train, he escapes an angry conductor by ducking into a compartment occupied by attractive blonde Jackie Winthrop (Carole Lynne), whom Gander flirts with. Another passenger, Teddy (Richard Murdoch), has his eye on Jackie as well, but her companion Richard Winthrop (Peter Murray-Hill) ejects both of them from the compartment.
Princess Tam Tam, 1h17
Directed by Edmond T. Gréville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Joséphine Baker, Albert Préjean, Robert Arnoux, Georges Péclet, Viviane Romance, Jean Galland
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62% 3.138893.138893.138893.138893.13889
This script must be run from the command line
David Golder, 1h26
Directed by Julien Duvivier, Giuseppe De Liguoro
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Harry Baur, Paule Andral, Jean Bradin, Jackie Monnier, Gaston Jacquet, Camille Bert
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69% 3.4704053.4704053.4704053.4704053.470405
Riche juif ukrainien, David Golder est entouré de personnes qui n'en veulent qu'à son argent, y compris sa famille. Il se laisse dominer par ses bons sentiments pour sa fille Joyce et se ruine presque pour elle. Il apprend par sa femme que Joyce n'est pas sa fille biologique. Malade, épuisé, il finit par laisser le reste de sa fortune à un émigrant ressemblant à David Golder jeune.