Kurt Pahlen

Coriún Aharonián is recorded as having studied under Kurt Pahlen. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Distinctions recorded are Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna and Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires.

Pahlen was born in Vienna, in 1907. At the age of seven, he lost his father, the song accompanist Richard Pahlen. His mother got married for the second time to the banker Paul Raumann and moved to Berlin-Schmargendorf with him and his son. Kurt Pahlen studied musicology and German studies in his hometown. In addition, he completed an apprenticeship as Kapellmeister at the Vienna Music Academy. In 1929 he received his doctorate. After his first successes as Kapellmeister of the Vienna Volksoper and being appreciated by the Revolutionary Socialists of Austria as choirmaster, he directed the music events of the Volkshochschule Ottakring. He was a conductor at Radio Wien and the Vienna Symphony and founded an opera studio at Ludo-Hartmann-Platz in the working-class district of Ottakring. Although, according to his own statement he was not personally threatened by Nazism, Pahlen did not return in 1938 from a stay in Zürich and emigrated in 1939 to Argentina. In Buenos Aires he became the music director and head of the Filarmónica Metropolitana, in which also played with the Austrian emigrant Estéban Eitler. Pahlen then became a professor at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo and was the founder and holder of the Department of Music History. For many years he was director of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires; also taught at the Pestalozzi School Buenos Aires. In those years he befriended Manuel de Falla, Paul Hindemith, and also from Vienna, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. After the end of the Third Reich, Pahlen conducted in the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, Theater Basel, Bern Theatre, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and other houses. He has performed with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and other orchestras. In the early 1970s, Pahlen returned to Switzerland and settled in Männedorf. He was professor at the Internationales Opernstudio of the Zürich Opera House. He taught masterclasses and was president of the Forum for Music and Movement in Lenk. He was visiting scholar at the University of Buenos Aires, National University of La Plata, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, University of Monterrey, Universidad Veracruzana and others. During the Musiktage organized by him for children in Lenk, he died as a result of a fall.

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