Born: April 15, 1891 - Königsberg, Germany
Died: October 15, 1945 - Mexico City, Mexico |
The German conductor Karl Alwin (real name: Alwin Oskar Pinkus) studied composition in Berlin with Engelbert Humperdinck and Hugo Kaun.
Karl Alwin then conducted in Halle (1913), Posen (1914), Düsseldorf (1915-1917), and Hamburg (1917-1920). From 1920 to 1938 he was a conductor of the Vienna State Opera. He left Austria in 1938, after the Anschluss, and went to Mexico, where he conducted opera from 1941 until his death. From 1920 to 1938 he was married to Elisabeth Schumann. |