Adolph Weiss
{{short description|American composer}}
Adolph Weiss (Baltimore, Maryland, November 12, 1891 – Van Nuys, California, February 21, 1971) was an American composer. A modernist, he was a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna from 1924 to 1927; his father was a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. He also served as a professional bassoonist in a number of orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the New York Symphony Society, the Rochester Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Chicago Symphony.
References
- {{cite book |last= Howard|first= John Tasker| author-link =John Tasker Howard|title= Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It|year= 1939 |publisher= Thomas Y. Crowell Co.|location= New York}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081122030155/http://www.idrs.org/publications/journal2/jnl12/weiss.html Notes, autobiography]
- [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/4/resources/1774 Adolph Weiss papers] at the University of Maryland Libraries
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Category:American male composers
Category:American classical bassoonists
Category:Musicians from Baltimore
Category:20th-century American composers
Category:20th-century American male musicians
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