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All performances →- Sat 14 Nov · 7 PMWaghalter’s Violin Concerto at Bard CollegeSosnoff Theater, Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York · U.S. premiere
- Sun 15 Nov · 2 PMWaghalter’s Violin Concerto at Bard CollegeSosnoff Theater, Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
- Tue 17 Nov · 7 PMWaghalter’s Violin Concerto at Carnegie HallStern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York, New York · New York premiere
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Waghalter’s Violin Concerto to Receive Its New York Premiere at Carnegie Hall on November 17
Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 15 (1911), will be performed by The Orchestra Now under JoAnn Falletta, with Mira Wang as soloist, in a program titled Gershwin, Jazz, and the Music…
New Recording: Waghalter’s Violin Sonata on Fin de Siècle Revisited
The violinist Łucja Madziar and the pianist Thomas Hoppe have recorded Ignatz Waghalter’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in F minor, Op. 5, for the Polish label DUX. Their album, Fin de Siècle…
Violin Sonata Performed at the Scarab Club, Detroit
Waghalter’s Sonata in F minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 5 — the work that won him the Mendelssohn Prize of the Berlin Academy of Art — was performed on May 31, 2026 at the Scarab Club in Detroit by…
Lecture at the University of Michigan on Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra
On January 15, 2026, the independent scholar Dr. David Goldfarb lectured at the University of Michigan on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra (1938–40), drawing on archives at Yale and…
Podcast: The Forgotten Story of Ignatz Waghalter and Harlem’s All-Black Symphony Orchestra
The Polish Cultural Institute New York has released a podcast conversation on Ignatz Waghalter and the Negro Symphony Orchestra he founded in Harlem — a story, in the Institute’s words, that was…
Deutsche Oper Berlin Remembers Władysław Waghalter
In mid-January 2020, members of the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin — the house Ignatz Waghalter opened as the Deutsches Opernhaus in 1912 — gave a concert titled Wider das Vergessen (“Against…
New World Suite Receives World Premiere in Poznań
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…
New World Suite to Receive World Premiere in Poznań
The world premiere performance of Ignatz Waghalter’s New World Suite will be given by Filhamonia Poznańska in Poznań, Poland, on Friday, May 17, 2019. The orchestra will be led by the Israeli-born…
String Quartet in D major Recorded by the Polish String Quartet Berlin
Waghalter’s String Quartet in D major, Op. 3 — the early work praised by Joseph Joachim — has been recorded by the Polish String Quartet Berlin for Poland Abroad, Vol. 7: String Quartets 2, released…
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Seventy Years Since the Death of Ignatz Waghalter
Seventy years ago, on the morning of April 7, 1949, Ignatz Waghalter, died suddenly of a massive heart attack in his New York City apartment on Central Park West. He was 68 years old.
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How the New World Suite Was Discovered
In 2012, Alexander Walker visited David Waghalter Green in Detroit to look through the boxes that contained what remained of his grandfather’s musical legacy. Buried in the bottom of one of the boxes, in a large manila envelope, he discovered a 200-page orchestral manuscript in Waghalter’s hand.
Violin Concerto Performed by the Filharmonia Gorzowska
Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concerto in A Major, Opus 15, was performed in Gorzow, Poland, on Friday, March 22, 2019. The Filharmonia Gorzowska was conducted by Marek Piyarowski. The soloist was…
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Ahasuerus und Ester: Waghalter's Anti-Fascist Purim Opera
In 1937, while living in Vienna, Ignatz Waghalter composed Ahasuerus und Ester, based on the Biblical story of the Jewish Queen of Persia who risks her life to save her people from destruction. It is…
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Waghalter and the Founding of the Deutsches Opernhaus
On November 7, 1912, conductor Ignatz Waghalter opened the newly-constructed Deutsches Opernhaus in the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg with a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio. In November 2012,…
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Rudolf Nelson and the Waghalter Jazz Orchester
In the Berlin of the 1920s, Rudolf Nelson (1878-1960) was a dominant figure in the city’s popular musical scene. A master of “kleine kunst,” the “Revues” that he staged at the Metropol Theater…
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Politics and Art in an Era of Social Upheaval
David Waghalter Green on his grandfather’s conception of the socially committed artist — the through-line that connects Waghalter’s refusal to convert to Christianity in interwar Berlin, his public defense of Roland Hayes and Marian Anderson in the 1920s, and his founding of the American Negro Orchestra in Harlem after fleeing the Nazi regime.
NPR Features the Songs Not Silenced Concert in Atlanta
On March 22, 2017, Atlanta’s NPR-affiliated station, WABE, featured the “Songs Not Silenced” concert – devoted to the music of composers whose music was banned by the Nazis – at Kennesaw State…
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One Hundred Years Since the Premiere of Jugend
It was the evening of February 17, 1917. The European War that had begun in August 1914 had already claimed millions of lives. At the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin, the curtain rose for the premier…
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An Afternoon in Berlin: Giorgi Latsabidze Plays Waghalter Piano Pieces
Many followers of this site have asked, after listening to Waghalter’s Remembrance, whether there are other piano pieces by my grandfather that could be posted. Yes, there are. On a rainy afternoon…
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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 years had passed since he and his wife, Toni, had fled Europe. Waghalter’s…
Waghalter Songs to be Performed at Atlanta Concert
Two cycles of songs composed by Ignatz Waghalter will be performed on March 23, 2017 at a concert at Kennesaw State University’s School of Music. The title of the concert is Songs Not Silenced: Music…
Pianist Kyle Walker Performs Selections from Zwölf Skizzen
Ignatz Waghalter’s inexhaustible melodic imagination frequently found expression in pieces that he improvised upon sitting down at the piano. Some of these improvisations would be later written down…
Waghalter Lieder Performed at Songs Not Silenced Concert
Seven lieder by Ignatz Waghalter were performed at the “Songs Not Silenced” concert at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, sung by the soprano Jana Young with Judy Cole at the piano. The video also includes Professor Laurence Sherr’s historical commentary and David Waghalter Green’s talk on the Waghalter family.
Naxos Release of the New World Suite
Naxos has released its second recording of orchestral music by Ignatz Waghalter, comprising the New World Suite, the Overture and Intermezzo from his 1914 comic opera Mandragola, and his 1936…
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Preserving the Legacy of My Grandfather, Ignatz Waghalter
Ignatz Waghalter, born in Warsaw in 1881 as the fifteenth of twenty children, grew up in a family of musicians. His great-grandfather, Laibisch Waghalter (1790–1868), was referred to in his time as…
Waghalter's Sinfonia Performed at Toronto Concert
Ignatz Waghalter’s Sinfonia was performed on November 14, 2014 in Toronto’s CBC Glenn Gould Studio.
Violin Concerto at Gala Concert in Warsaw
Ignatz Waghalter’s Violin Concero in A Major, Opus 15, was performed on October 27, 2014 in Warsaw’s historic Teatr Wielki at a Gala Concert celebrating the Grand Opening of the Core Exhibit at the…
Naxos to Release Second Waghalter CD
A second CD featuring orchestral works of Ignatz Waghalter, with conductor Alexander Walker leading the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, will be released in April 2015.
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How the Waghalter Violin Concerto Was Discovered
Irmina Trynkos met the grandson of Ignatz Waghalter by chance at the end of 2009. This fortuitous encounter set the stage for a long overdue reappearance of the composer’s both genial and original…
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Ignatz Who? Irmina Trynkos Discusses a Forgotten Composer
My interview with violinist Irmina Trynkos is to focus primarily on her discovery and new Naxos recording of violin works by Ignatz Waghalter, a Polish-German composer of Jewish descent who, for all…
Naxos Release of Waghalter Music
Naxos has released its first recording of music by Ignatz Waghalter: the Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 15, the Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 9, and the Sonata for Violin and Piano in F…
Reviews of the First Naxos Waghalter CD
The main offering here is the Violin Concerto Op.15…a beautiful work that recalls Bruch and Brahms…The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Alexander Walker provides exemplary accompaniment in this and…
Waghalter CD Awarded "Supersonic" Citation by Pizzicato Magazine
Every month, the prestigious European music journal Pizzicato reviews hundreds of newly-released CDs. Of these, only a handful receives its coveted Supersonic designation, which it reserves for those…
Waghalter on CD
Naxos has released its recording of Ignatz Waghalter's Violin Concerto, Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra, Sonata for Violin and Piano, and two short pieces for violin.