Walter Damrosch

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Walter Damrosch

Walter Johannes Damrosch (January 30, 1862 – December 22, 1950) was a Kingdom of Prussia-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius' Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist.

Birth and Death Data: Born January 30, 1862 (Wrocław), Died December 22, 1950 (New York City)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1903 - 1941

Roles Represented in DAHR: conductor, composer, choral director, speaker, arranger, piano

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Description	Role
Victor	B-679	10-in.	11/9/1903	Danny Deever	George Alexander	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	A-679	7-in.	11/9/1903	Danny Deever	George Alexander	Male vocal solo, with piano	composer
Victor	CVE-7021	12-in.	4/20/1927	Danny Deever	Reinald Werrenrath	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	C-7021	12-in.	4/29/1909	Danny Deever	Reinald Werrenrath	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	C-11278	12-in.	2/14/1913	Danny Deever	Percy Hemus	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	B-11278	10-in.	11/27/1911	Danny Deever	Percy Hemus	Male vocal solo	composer
Victor	C-21274	12-in.	12/21/1917	The star spangled banner	John Philip Sousa ; Sousa's Band	Band	arranger
Victor	C-28896	12-in.	11/15/1923	Werrenrath song medley	Reinald Werrenrath	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	CVE-33083	12-in.	7/15/1925	Danny Deever	Royal Dadmun	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Victor	CVE-34529	12-in.	2/6/1926	Where'er you walk	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-34531	12-in.	2/6/1926	Bedouin song	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-34533	12-in.	2/6/1926	Sylvia	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	BVE-34534	10-in.	2/6/1926	The gondoliers : Finale, part 1	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-34535	12-in.	2/6/1926	The gondoliers : Finale, part 2	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-34541	12-in.	2/6/1926	Sweet and low	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	BVE-34543	10-in.	2/6/1926	The hundred pipers	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-34545	12-in.	2/6/1926	Autumn sea	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-34546	12-in.	2/6/1926	Prayer of Thanksgiving	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Male vocal chorus	choral director
Victor	CVE-59788	12-in.	5/13/1930	Airs de ballet	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59789	12-in.	5/13/1930	Airs de ballet	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59790	12-in.	5/13/1930	Airs de ballet	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59793	12-in.	5/16/1930	Ballet divertissement	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra [Washington, D.C.]	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59794	12-in.	5/16/1930	Ballet divertissement	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59795	12-in.	5/16/1930	Ballet divertissement	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59797	12-in.	5/20/1930	Gavotte in D	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59798	12-in.	5/20/1930	Perpetual motion	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-59799	12-in.	5/20/1930	Ballet divertissement	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra [Washington, D.C.]	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-63663	12-in.	9/18/1930	Pavane	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra	conductor
Victor	CVE-63664	12-in.	9/18/1930	Iphigenia farewell	Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)	Orchestra, with cello solo	composer, conductor
Victor	MRC-64679	16-in.	2/12/1931	Official opening of Vatican Station HVJ	Guglielmo Marconi ; Pope Pius XI	Radio broadcast : Speeches, dialogue, and music	conductor
Victor	CS-82344	12-in.	4/24/1934	Dramatic recitals at the piano of Richard Wagner's Nibelunger trilogy, part 1	Walter Damrosch	Talk, with piano	arranger, speaker, instrumentalist, piano
Columbia	1208	10-in.	ca. 1903	Toreador's song	Damrosch Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	30016	12-in.	approximately March 1906	The hanging of Danny Deever	David Scull Bispham	Baritone vocal solo, with piano	composer
Columbia	30773	12-in.	5/22/1911	Danny Deever	David Scull Bispham	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	98039	12-in.	9/30/1922	Danny Deever	Louis Graveure	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Columbia	98077	12-in.	5/1/1923	Roses of the South	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98078	12-in.	5/1/1923	Norwegian dances nos. 1 and 2	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98080	12-in.	5/2/1923	The merry wives of Windsor : Overture	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98081	12-in.	5/2/1923	Der Freischütz : Overture	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98082	12-in.	5/3/1923	First movement : Allegro molto	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98083	12-in.	5/3/1923	Third movement : Menuetto	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98127	12-in.	3/3/1924	Symphony no. 5 : Andante	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98128	12-in.	3/3/1924	Symphony no. 6 : March	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98130	12-in.	3/4/1924	Rosamunde : Overture	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98131	12-in.	3/4/1924	Symphony no. 2 : Allegretto	New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98132	12-in.	3/5/1924	Symphony no. 8 : Allegretto	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	98133	12-in.	3/6/1924	Symphony no. 9 : Minuet	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W140487	10-in.	3/31/1925	Speech [by Walter Damrosch]	Walter Damrosch	Speech	speaker
Columbia	W98226	12-in.	2/3/1926	Capriccio espagnol	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98227	12-in.	2/3/1926	Danse bacchanale	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98313	12-in.	2/8/1927	Funeral march from Symphony no. 3 (Eroica)	Walter Damrosch	Talk, with piano	speaker
Columbia	W98314	12-in.	2/8/1927	Anniversary of the death of Beethoven (1827-1927)	Walter Damrosch	Talk, with piano	speaker
Columbia	W98363	12-in.	6/7/1927	Mother Goose suite (Ma mere l'oye)	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98364	12-in.	6/7/1927	Mother Goose suite (Ma mere l'oye)	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98365	12-in.	6/7/1927	Mother Goose suite (Ma mere l'oye)	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98366	12-in.	6/9/1927	Mother Goose suite (Ma mere l'oye)	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98367	12-in.	6/9/1927	Entrance of the little fauns	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98368	12-in.	6/9/1927	Mother Goose suite (Ma mere l'oye)	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98422	12-in.	1/4/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98423	12-in.	1/4/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98424	12-in.	1/4/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98425	12-in.	1/4/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98426	12-in.	1/5/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98427	12-in.	1/5/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98428	12-in.	1/5/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98429	12-in.	1/6/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98430	12-in.	1/6/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98431	12-in.	1/6/1928	Symphony in D major	Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	conductor
Columbia	W98558	12-in.	6/21/1928	Danny Deever	Alexander J. Kisselburgh	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	8221-8222	10-in.	approximately June 1922	Danny Deever	Richard Bonelli	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	X11716-X11718	12-in.	10/24/1923	Danny Deever	John Barclay	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	XE28146	12-in.	8/24/1928	Danny Deever	John Charles Thomas	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	XE24701-XE24702	12-in.	10/11/1927	Danny Deever	Richard Bonelli	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Brunswick	XE25303-XE25304	12-in.	11/26/1927	Danny Deever	John Charles Thomas	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Edison	557	Not documented	approximately Feb. 1911	Danny Deever	Marcus Kellermann	Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra	composer
Edison	1105	10-in.	6/25/1912	Danny Deever	Marcus Kellermann	Male vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra	composer
Edison	4737	10-in.	5/19/1916	Danny Deever	Arthur Middleton	Male vocal solo, with orchestra	composer

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Damrosch, Walter," accessed November 24, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/109132.

Damrosch, Walter. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 24, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/109132.

"Damrosch, Walter." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 24 November 2024.