Mohaupt, Richard (1904–1957)

German conductor and composer. After studying at Breslau University he conducted opera at several German towns and later toured as a conductor in Russia. His ballet was produced in Berlin in 1936, but soon afterwards his works were proscribed by the Nazi régime because he did not subscribe to its ideology and refused to divorce his Jewish wife. He worked in the USA 1939–55.

Works operas Die Wirtin von Pinsk (1937) and Boleslav der Schamhafte, comic opera for children; ballets Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche (after Grimmelshausen, 1936) and Lysistrata (after Aristophanes, 1941), ballet for children; symphony, concerto, Drei Episoden and Stadtpfeifermusik (on Dürer's mural Nürnberger Stadtpfeifer, for orchestra (1939); piano concerto (1938), violin concerto (1945).