Ignatz Waghalter’s New World Suite received its world premiere performance on May 17, 2019. The Israeli-born conductor Ariel Zuckermann led the Filharmonia Poznańska in Poznań, Poland. The concert also featured the Concerto for Piano by Karol Rathaus (1895-1954). The soloist was the Canadian-born pianist, Daniel Wnukowski. The performance was broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Both …
The world premiere performance of Ignatz Waghalter’s New World Suite will be given by Filhamonia Poznańska in Poznań, Poland, on Friday, May 17, 2019. The orchestra will be led by the Israeli-born conductor Ariel Zuckerman. Since 2015 Maestro Zuckermann, who is 46, has been the director and conductor of the Israeli Chamber …
Seventy years ago, on the morning of April 7, 1949, Ignatz Waghalter, died suddenly of a massive heart attack in his New York City apartment on Central Park West. He was 68 years old. Waghalter’s death came almost exactly 12 years after he had arrived in the United States, having …
The second Naxos recording of orchestral music by Ignatz Wagalter was released in May 2015. The story behind the discovery of this long-lost work is remarkable.
Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concerto in A Major, Opus 15, was performed in Gorzow, Poland, on Friday, March 22, 2019. The Filharmonia Gorzowska was conducted by Marek Piyarowski. The soloist was Aleksandra Kuls. The concert program also included Stanisław Moniuszko’s Overture to the opera Paria and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Opus …
In 1937, while living in Vienna, Ignatz Waghalter composed Ahasuerus und Ester, based on the Biblical story of the Jewish Queen of Persia who risks her life to save her people from destruction. It is not difficult to understand why Waghalter was drawn to this story. Hamen, the malevolent adviser to the …
On November 7, 1912, conductor Ignatz Waghalter opened the newly-constructed Deutsches Opernhaus in the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg with a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio. In November 2012, the centenary of the founding of the opera house (now known as the Deutsche Oper), was celebrated with the premier of Overture 1912, a film …
In the Berlin of the 1920s, Rudolf Nelson (1878-1960) was a dominant figure in the city’s popular musical scene. A master of “kleine kunst,” the “Revues” that he staged at the Metropol Theater featured many of the leading artists of the time. An astonishingly prolific composer, his songs were sung by such …
In an interview with the British documentarist Hugo Berkeley, David Waghalter Green places his grandfather’s conception of the socially-committed artist within the context of the political upheavals of the 1930s and the twentieth century as a whole.
On March 22, 2017, Atlanta’s NPR-affiliated station, WABE, featured the “Songs Not Silenced” concert – devoted to the music of composers whose music was banned by the Nazis – at Kennesaw State University. Lois Reitzes, the moderator of City Lights, a program devoted to the coverage of Atlanta’s cultural life, interviewed Laurence Sherr, …
It was the evening of February 17, 1917. The European War that had begun in August 1914 had already claimed millions of lives. …
Ignatz Waghalter was one of Germany’s greatest operatic conductors in the first decades of the twentieth century. Fortunately he left behind a …
In September 1941 Ignatz Waghalter was living in New York City, in an apartment on Central Park West and 100th Street. Four …
Many followers of this site have asked, after listening to Waghalter’s Remembrance, whether there are other piano pieces by my grandfather that could …
Beatrice Waghalter, the second of Ignatz Waghalter’s two children, was born in Berlin on December 18, 1913. The early years of Beatrice …
In April 1989, Beatrice Waghalter (1913-2001), the daughter of Ignatz Waghalter, traveled to Berlin to attend the Deutsche Oper’s performance of her …
Two cycles of songs composed by Ignatz Waghalter will be performed on March 23, 2017 at a concert at Kennesaw State University’s …
Ignatz Waghalter’s inexhaustible melodic imagination frequently found expression in pieces that he improvised upon sitting down at the piano. Some of these …
Seven lieder composed by Ignatz Waghalter were performed on March 23, 2017 at the “Songs Not Silenced concert at Kennesaw State University …
Naxos has released its second recording of orchestral music by Ignatz Waghalter including the New World Suite, Mandragola: Overture and Intermezzo as well as Masaryk’s Peace March.
By David Waghalter Green
“For me, the recovery of Waghalter’s music has made possible, in a profoundly personal sense, a deeper understanding of my grandfather. His music reveals a man of intense and fluctuating emotions. Despite all the difficulties that he encountered in his life, Waghalter’s view of the world was essentially optimistic, hopeful and idealistic.”
Ignatz Waghalter’s Sinfonia was performed on November 14, 2014 in Toronto’s CBC Glenn Gould Studio.
Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concero in A Major, Opus 15, was performed on October 27, 2014 in Warsaw’s historic Teatr Wielki at a Gala Concert celebrating the Grand Opening of the Core Exhibit at the Museum of the History of Polish Jewry. The event was attended by an audience of more than 1700 people from all over the world.
Naxos has released its recording of Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concerto, Rhapsodie for Violin, Sonata for Violin and Piano and two short pieces for violin.
Founded by violinist Irmina Trynkos and developed in collaboration with acclaimed conductor Alexander Walker the Waghalter Project aims to popularise the music of Ignatz Waghalter.
Interview by Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine with violinist Irmina Trynkos on her discovery and new Naxos recording of violin works by Ignatz Waghalter.
