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Pictures of Waghalter

Waghalter Family (1889)

Waghalter as a student at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1899)

Waghalter in his apartment in Konstanzer Straße in Berlin (1917)

Gregor Hartmann, Giacomo Puccini and Ignatz Waghalter in Berlin (1913)

Waghalter in Berlin (1925)

Waghalter in New York (1945)

Waghalter Painting

Waghalter and the orchestra of the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin (1912)

Waghalter’s “New World Suite” Receives World Premiere With Filharmonia Poznańska

Ignatz Waghalter’s New World Suite received its world premiere performance on May 17, 2019. The Israeli-born conductor Ariel Zuckermann led the Filharmonia Poznańska in Poznań, Poland. The concert also featured the Concerto for Piano by Karol Rathaus (1895-1954). The soloist was the Canadian-born pianist, Daniel Wnukowski. The performance was broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Both …

Politics and Art in an Era of Social Upheaval

In an interview with the British documentarist Hugo Berkeley, David Waghalter Green places his grandfather’s conception of the socially-committed artist within the context of the political upheavals of the 1930s and the twentieth century as a whole.

Waghalter’s “Remembrance”

In September 1941 Ignatz Waghalter was living in New York City, in an apartment on Central Park West and 100th Street. Four …

Beatrice Waghalter (1913-2001)

Beatrice Waghalter, the second of Ignatz Waghalter’s two children, was born in Berlin on December 18, 1913. The early years of Beatrice …

Preserving the Legacy of My Grandfather, Ignatz Waghalter

By David Waghalter Green

“For me, the recovery of Waghalter’s music has made possible, in a profoundly personal sense, a deeper understanding of my grandfather. His music reveals a man of intense and fluctuating emotions. Despite all the difficulties that he encountered in his life, Waghalter’s view of the world was essentially optimistic, hopeful and idealistic.”

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