William Steinberg Collection 1935-1936

The collection contains three letters from William Steinberg to Emmy Rubensohn, two of which are handwritten, regarding concerts he conducted for the Jüdischer Kulturbund in Kassel.William Steinberg was born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg in Cologne in 1899. He was a famous up-and-coming conductor in Germany, and also famous as a pianist. In 1936, he emigrated from Germany to Palestine, where he was active in organizing the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which eventually became the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra. From Palestine, he went to the United States, where he first conducted the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra, then the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, and ended his career as director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He died in 1978.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderAR 3019 removed from Autograph Collection to K locationProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize