Composer. The younger brother of operetta composer Leo Fall, he studied in Berlin with Max Bruch. His career began promisingly when his Piano Trio Op. 4 (c. 1900) received Germany's highest musical award, the Mendelsshon Prize, and he went on to have an opera, a symphony, and several instrumental and vocal works performed in the years before World War I. In the postwar era he was active primarily as an arranger and choral director in Vienna. In 1942 Fall was arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, apparently while trying to escape to Switzerland, and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in January 1943. He died there four months later. His fate is sometimes confused with that of his brother, composer Richard Fall, who vanished at Auschwitz in early 1945.
Composer. The younger brother of operetta composer Leo Fall, he studied in Berlin with Max Bruch. His career began promisingly when his Piano Trio Op. 4 (c. 1900) received Germany's highest musical award, the Mendelsshon Prize, and he went on to have an opera, a symphony, and several instrumental and vocal works performed in the years before World War I. In the postwar era he was active primarily as an arranger and choral director in Vienna. In 1942 Fall was arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, apparently while trying to escape to Switzerland, and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in January 1943. He died there four months later. His fate is sometimes confused with that of his brother, composer Richard Fall, who vanished at Auschwitz in early 1945.
Bio by: Bobb Edwards
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