Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau (19 December 1894 Hamburg, Germany - 28 June 1979 in Königs Wusterhausen, Germany) was a German composer and conductor. Dessau was born in Hamburg into a musical family. His grandfather, Moses Berend Dessau, was a cantor, his uncle, Bernhard Dessau, a violinist at the Royal Opera House, Unter den Linden, and his cousin Max Winterfeld became generally known under the name Jean Gilbert as a composer of operettas. From 1909 he majored in violin at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin.