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Article: KORNGOLD FORBIDDEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 9, 1997
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Byline: Marc Shulgold
Given a middle name like his, young Erich Wolfgang Korngold had his life worked out for him by his father. Presumably, just as Mozart had done, the boy would quickly become a musical genius, composing great works before he could shave.
Funny thing is, he did.
The son of influential Viennese music critic Julius Korngold, Erich ``had advantages as a kid most other musicians didn't have,'' violist Barbara Hamilton Primus points out. ``He had great connections.''
Growing up in an affluent household in turn-of-the-century Austria, Korngold also had a serious disadvantage - he was Jewish. Though he achieved fame in ...