Walter Goehr
*28 May 1903
†4 December 1960
Works by Walter Goehr
Biography
b. Berlin, Germany
d. Sheffield, Great Britain
composer, conductor
Goehr lost his post of conductor at the Berlin Radio in 1925 due to his Jewish lineage. He emigrated to London in 1933 to take up his new position of music director at the Gramophone Company (later EMI).
