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Henry Jolles

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Upon fleeing Germany for France after 1933, Jolles met with some success in re-establishing his career, from 1935-39 leading the concert society "La Sonata", but the German invasion forced him to start yet again in Brazil. That disruption proved one too many; while he returned to touring in Europe in
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label, he was unable to recapture his earlier success. His sole surviving composition predating 1933 is a fragment of a work he wrote jointly with Weill for four pianos. Among his works after arriving in Brazil are piano pieces, a ballet based on
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concentration camp in 1943. He and his wife would remain residents of Brazil for the rest of their lives. Their sole child, a son named Olivier de Chalon Jolles, was born there in 1945. Olivier was a childhood friend of famous Brazilian composer
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would honor him with the Wilhelmkreuz, a recently created civilian decoration for merit in the war effort, for his management of that company's metals business. At age six, Jolles played for the celebrated virtuoso and composer
423: 105:, Jolles began to develop a successful performing career in the 1920s. His academic career also flourished, bringing appointment as professor at the Cologne Music Academy in 1928, at which point he moved from Berlin- 113:. The ascendency of the Nazis brought an abrupt halt to this progress and several years of disruptions. In 1933, the regime directed Jolles's dismissal from his Academy position, and, by 1934, Jolles had moved to 172:
Jolles launched a successful career as a performer in the 1920s, earning a reputation as an accomplished performer of both classical and contemporary literature. In 1928 he performed the complete piano works of
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to escape persecution. There, he had some success in re-establishing his performing career and, in 1940 or 1941, married Elisabeth Henriette Sauty de Chalon, but with the
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to Dr Oscar Jolles and his wife, Gertrude (née Sternberg). His mother was Jewish but it is unclear if his father was, as well. Oscar, who had received a degree of
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in 1940, Jolles came back into danger from the German occupation. Luck was with him, however, as he received assistance from American philanthropist
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invited Jolles to accept a teaching position at the Escola Livre de Música in São Paulo. His students there included composer
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Jolles died in São Paulo in 1965, aged 63. His wife died there three years later, on 26 March 1968.
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1946 and in Germany in 1950, and around that time made long playing recordings for the American
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Franz Schubert Fantasy Sonata in G major, Opus 78 and Three Klavierstücke, Opus Posthumous
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and changed his name from "Heinz" to "Henry". His mother and sister were murdered in the
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in 1886, was president and majority owner of the large printing and publishing company
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Cantus Quercus Press, biographical sketch of Henrique de Curitiba
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Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
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Biographical sketch of Stefan Zweig at Casa Stefan Zweig
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Index

German
pianist
composer
Germany
Nazism
Brazil
Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy
Jena University
H. Berthold AG
World War I
Kingdom of Württemberg
Eugen d'Albert
Artur Schnabel
Edwin Fischer
Paul Juon
Kurt Weill
Charlottenburg
Cologne
Paris
fall of France
Varian Fry
Marseille
São Paulo
Auschwitz
Chico Buarque
Hans-Joachim Koellreutter
Henrique de Curitiba
Franz Schubert
University of Heidelberg

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