Josef Schmid (composer)

{{Short description|German conductor and composer (1890–1969)}}

Josef Schmid (1890, in Germany – 1969, in New York City) was a conductor, composer, and composition teacher. He was one of the first students of Alban Berg,Theodor W. Adorno, Alban Berg, Henri Lonitz, Adorno-Berg Correspondence, 1925–1935 with whom he studied before World War I.Joseph Henry Auner, A Schoenberg reader: documents of a life As a conductor Schmid had been an assistant to both Zemlinsky[http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article_print.php?id=14714 AllAboutJazz.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022193107/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article_print.php?id=14714 |date=2012-10-22 }} and Erich Kleiber.Adorno-Berg-Lonitz, op. cit. As a composer Schmid was associated with Berg and Webern but considered himself a musical "godson" of Schoenberg.AllAboutJazz.com, op. cit. After World War I Schmid emigrated to New York City and established himself as a teacher of composition, basing his teaching on the writings of Schoenberg. His composition students included Joe Maneri, Gus Pardalis, Harold Seletsky, Robert Di Domenica, and Frieda Schmitt-Lermann.