Richard Mohaupt

Richard Mohaupt (14 September 1904 – 3 July 1957) was a German composer and Kapellmeister.

Life and career Richard Mohaupt was born in Breslau, where he studied music at Breslau University with Julius Prüwer and Rudolf Bilke. but shortly after this success the Nazis denounced him with the expression "Music Bolshevism" and he was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer. With this exclusion Richard Mohaupt could not work in Germany anymore and so emigrated to the US in 1939 and settled in New York.

Mohaupt created his last opera, Der grüne Kakadu, after moving back to Europe in 1955 where he ultimately settled in Austria. (world premiere 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky) Der grüne Kakadu (world premiere 1958 in Hamburg)

Ballets Die Gaunerstreiche der Courasche (after Grimmelshausen; world premiere 1936 in Berlin) Max und Moritz (after Wilhelm Busch; world premiere 1949 in Karlsruhe) Der Weiberstreik von Athen (after Lysistrata; world premiere 1957 in Karlsruhe)

Orchestral works Drei Episoden (world premiere 1938 in Amsterdam) Concerto for piano and orchestra (world premiere 1938 in Warsaw; world premiere of the revised version at the IGNM festival in Frankfurt/Main in 1951) Town Piper Music (world premiere 1941 in New York) Symphony No. 1 "Rhythm and Variations" (world premiere 1942 in New York) Concerto for Orchestra (Based on Red Army Themes) (world premiere 1943 in New York) Concerto for violin and orchestra (world premiere 1954 in New York) Banchetto musicale (world premiere 1956 in Berlin)