Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt [SEP] place of death
the opera "Hassan gewinnt" (Rostock, 1928), and works for orchestra. His son was the British record producer Erik Smith.
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt died in Holm, Pinneberg, West Germany, in 1973.
Recordings.
In 1937 he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Georg Kulenkampff in a rendition of Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor. The original has been restored and reissued by Heritage Records here .
In 2002 Decca Records issued a box set of Schmidt-Isserstedt's recordings of
, which was the only radio station in what would become West Germany not destroyed during the war. The first musicians came mostly from the ranks of the old Nazi-controlled Großes Rundfunkorchester des Reichssenders Hamburg. Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, who was living near Hamburg, was given the task of assembling the members, something he accomplished over a period of six months. Schmidt-Isserstedt conducted the orchestra's first concert in November 1945, with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist. Schmidt-Isserstedt served as the first chief conductor of the orchestra