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Joseph Kosma - Autumn Leaves
Joseph Kosma - Autumn Leaves
As recorded by Bill Evans (sheet music)
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Joseph Kosma
Joseph Kosma was born in Budapest 22 October 1905. He began studying music at the age of eleven and soon wrote a short opera The Christmas Trenches revealing his gifts.
After his classical studies, with the advice of the main composer Leo Weiner and teacher, He entered the Academy of Music in Budapest, he will leave with a degree in conducting ; assistant conductor at the opera, he participated in Bartók's miraculous mandarin rehearsals.
In 1928, as a scholarship holder, he moved to Berlin, where he met Lilly Call, a famous concert pianist; she became his wife. Will be your best counselor and musical knowledge. She participates in the theater of Bertolt Brecht and Weigel Helena; Brechtian songs will be the mold of the songs from her they come. He became a friend of the composer Hanns Eisler.
In March 1933, against the rise of Nazism, Kosma and his wife took refuge in France, tough years, where the meeting of the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert and the filmmaker Jean Renoir, will be the teginning of his salvation: The Music of the Great Illusion and The human beast, his first songs.
The war and the exodus forced him to join the Maritime Alps, where he stayed for almost 5 years. He wrote, as candidates, film music, notably Les visiteurs du soir et Les enfants duparadis.
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Joseph Kosma - Autumn Leaves
Joseph Kosma - Autumn Leaves
As recorded by Bill Evans (sheet music)
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Joseph Kosma
Joseph Kosma was born in Budapest 22 October 1905. He began studying music at the age of eleven and soon wrote a short opera The Christmas Trenches revealing his gifts.
After his classical studies, with the advice of the main composer Leo Weiner and teacher, He entered the Academy of Music in Budapest, he will leave with a degree in conducting ; assistant conductor at the opera, he participated in Bartók's miraculous mandarin rehearsals.
In 1928, as a scholarship holder, he moved to Berlin, where he met Lilly Call, a famous concert pianist; she became his wife. Will be your best counselor and musical knowledge. She participates in the theater of Bertolt Brecht and Weigel Helena; Brechtian songs will be the mold of the songs from her they come. He became a friend of the composer Hanns Eisler.
In March 1933, against the rise of Nazism, Kosma and his wife took refuge in France, tough years, where the meeting of the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert and the filmmaker Jean Renoir, will be the teginning of his salvation: The Music of the Great Illusion and The human beast, his first songs.
The war and the exodus forced him to join the Maritime Alps, where he stayed for almost 5 years. He wrote, as candidates, film music, notably Les visiteurs du soir et Les enfants duparadis.
sheetmusiclibrary.website/2023/03/19/joseph-kosma-autumn-...