Albert Richard Mohr (1911–1992) was a German

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

and

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

expert. He was born in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...

. He studied there at the

Frankfurt University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

. From 1937 to 1943 he was lecturer on Music and Theatre History at the

Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (german: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, italic=no, link=no, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its k ...

. From 1938, he was actively engaged in the

Oper Frankfurt The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt. Opera in Frankfurt am Main has a long tradition, with many world premieres such as Franz Shrek's ''Der ferne Klang'' in 1912, '' Fennimore und Gerda'' by Frede ...

Frankfurt, Hauptfriedhof, Grab Albert Richard Mohr, Portrait

Bibliography

* Albert Richard Mohr: Das Frankfurter Opernhaus 1880–1980. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1980,

References

Biography, under Mohr Albert

External links

Albert Richard Mohr collection at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
1911 births 1992 deaths 20th-century German musicologists Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-musicologist-stub