Paul Abraham [SEP] date of death
Paul Abraham
Paul Abraham (; 2 November 1892 – 6 May 1960) was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. His specialty - and own innovation - was the insertion of jazz interludes into operettas.
Abraham was born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (today Serbia), and studied at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1910 to 1916. He studied cello with Adolf Schiffer and composition with Viktor Herzfeld.
Career.
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Sources.
- Paul Goodman, "David Donald's Charles Sumner Reconsidered" in "The New England Quarterly," Vol. 37, No. 3. (Sep., 1964), pp. 373–387.online at JSTOR
- Ari Hoogenboom, "David Herbert Donald: A Celebration," in "A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald," ed. William J. Cooper, Jr., "et