Walter Johannes Damrosch (1862 – 1950). German-born American conductor and composer. He is best remembered today as long-time director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and for conducting the world premiere performances of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F (1925) and An American in Paris (1928). Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's third piano concerto with Rachmaninoff himself as a soloist.
Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, a son of Helene von Heimburg, a former opera singer, and the conductor Leopold Damrosch, and brother of conductor Frank Damrosch and music teacher Clara Mannes.
- "... and indeed his younger brother Walter did have blond-red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=YLQXrHGNlQUC&pg=PA9...
- "On the evening of Nov. 17, 1891 a sharp-eyed Pole with an incredible stack of red-gold hair walked onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. [...] Leading the attendant orchestra was Manhattan's cool, deliberate Walter Damrosch, then a young man of 29." https://content.time.com/.../article/0,33009,788955,00.html
- "... and the rehearsals were led by his youngest son - twenty-two-year-old Walter, a young man with light red hair, as if justifying the name (his father's grandfather was Jewish, in Hebrew "damros" - "red")." https://vk.com/wall-4700158_25584?lang=en
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