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Erich Schmid was a Swiss composer and conductor. He was born on 1 January 1907 in
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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
and died on 17 December 2000 in Zürich. He studied composition with
Bernhard Sekles Bernhard Sekles (20 March 1872 – 8 December 1934) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue. Life and career Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna (née Bischheim). The fami ...
at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt and later with Arnold Schönberg. Among many other international conducting roles, he was chief conductor of the
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, Zürich from 1949 to 1957.


Literature

* Peter Cahn: ''Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878-1978)'', Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979. (Seite 268ff) * Chris Walton: ''"... in my duty to defend the truth", Erich Schmid in Schoenberg's Berlin Composition Class''; in: ''Tempo, a quarterly review of Modern Music'' No. 218, Oktober 2001, p. 15-19, ill. * Chris Walton: ''Schoenberg's Alpine wanderer: Erich Schmid at 100''; in: ''The Musical Times'', no. 1897, Winter 2006, p. 5-22, ill.


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Erich Schmid Biography
*Sound recordings of works of the composer from the archives of
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