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Kurt Adler (March 1, 1907September 21, 1977) was an Austrian classical chorus master, music conductor, author and pianist. He was best known as the chorus master and lead conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1943 to 1973.〔 ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition.'' New York: Schirmer Reference, 2000, p. 21〕 He conducted in Austria, Germany, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, United States, Canada, Mexico, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. ==Early life== Kurt Adler was born in Jindřichův Hradec/Neuhaus, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), Bohemia during the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a bourgeois Jewish family. He was the only child of Siegfried Adler (born June 26, 1876 in Luka u Jihlavy, Bohemia), a textile factory owner, and Olga (Fürth) Adler (born April 3, 1883 in Sušice/Schüttenhofen, Bohemia (now Czech Republic).〔From the Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc., New York Press Bureau Artist's Questionnaire, Nov. 13, 1945〕 Both parents were murdered by the Gestapo during World War II, after they were deported to Izbica concentration camp, which served as a transfer camp, to the Bełżec extermination camp in Poland on May 15, 1942.〔United States Holocaust Museum Archive, Washington DC〕 His paternal grandparents, Jakob and Eveline Adler are buried in Neuhaus (now Jindřichův Hradec), Hebrew Cemetery.〔Václav Urban: (''Kurt Adler (1907 Neuhaus – 1977 New York)'' ). 1. vydání, Jindřichův Hradec, Kostelní Radouň, 2007, pp. 11–13, ISBN 978-80-87107-00-3〕 His maternal grandparents, Albert and Katherine Fürth are buried in Sušice (Schüttenhofen), Bohemia (now Czech Republic).〔 During the 1930s many now-famous musicians, including Adler, emigrated to the United States to escape from Nazism. Adler emigrated to the United States on October 9, 1938.〔 He sailed from Rotterdam, Holland in 1938 on the "SS Statendam".〔United States of America Declaration of Intention and Petition for Naturalization, National Archives and Records Administration, Northeastern Region, New York, New York〕 The ship was later destroyed in the Rotterdam Blitz. He was naturalized on March 21, 1944.〔 ''One of the Props.'' Opera News, January 25, 1969, s. 27〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kurt Adler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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