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Damrosch, Walter (Johannes) (1862–1950)| US conductor and composer, son of Leopold Damrosch. He studied in Germany and settled in the USA in 1871, and became conductor of the New York Oratorio and Symphonic Societies in 1885. He was director of the Damrosch Opera Company 1894–99, giving the first US performances of several operas by Wagner. |
Works Stage operas The Scarlet Letter (after Hawthorne; 1896), Cyrano de Bergerac (after Rostand; 1913), The Dove of Peace, The Man without a Country (1937); incidental music to Euripides' Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Medea. |
Other Abraham Lincoln's Song for baritone solo, chorus, and orchestra; Te Deum; violin and piano sonata; songs. |
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