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- Prussian-born American orchestral conductor and composer whose activities spanned more than half a century of American musical life.
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David Damrosh - Biography#
David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature
David Damrosch is the founding director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association.
He has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present, and has lectured in over fifty countries worldwide. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), How to Read World Literature (2008), Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (2020), and Around the World in 80 Books (2021), and he is the editor or co-editor of twenty-two other books. He is currently writing a book on writing systems and cultural memory.
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Walter Damrosch
German-American conductor and composer (1862–1950)
Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Prussian-born American conductor and composer.[1] He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius' Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall.[2] He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist.
Life and career
Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, to Helene von Heimburg, a former opera singer, and the conductor Leopold Damrosch. His brother Frank Damrosch became a music conductor and sister Clara Mannes a music teacher. His parents were Lutheran, although his paternal grandfather was Jewish.[3][4][5]
He exhibited an interest in music at an early age and
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David Damrosch
American literary historian
David Damrosch is an American literary historian, was born in Maine and raised there and in New York, currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor at Harvard University and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[1][2][3][4] His great-great-grandfather was Leopold Damrosch. [5]
Damrosch studied at Yale University, receiving his BA in 1975 and his PhD in 1980.[1] He taught at Columbia University from 1980 until 2009 when he moved to Harvard University.[6] He founded the Institute for World Literature in 2010[7] and has previously been the president of the American Comparative Literature Association.[6]
In 2023 he was awarded the Balzan Prize.[8]