Paul Fromm

Paul Fromm

"For the Canadian White Supremacist see Paul Fromm (activist)"

Paul Fromm (1906-July 4, 1987) was a Jewish Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through the Fromm Music Foundation. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865368,00.html] The "Organum for Paul Fromm" was composed by John Harbison in his honor. [http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=24229]

Born in Kitzingen, Germany to a prominent family of vintners, Fromm was an early supporter of contemporary classical music in that country after he was exposed to Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in the early 1920s. He attended concerts at the Donaueschingen Festival further deepening his appreciation of the genre. [http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/fromm.html#history] A Jew, he was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1938 and immigrated to the United States where he settled in Chicago where he co-founded a wine importing firm, the Geeting and Fromm Corporation in 1939 and then founded the Great Lakes Wine Company in 1943. [http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/fromm.html#history]

By 1952, his business was established enough for him to focus to establish the Fromm Music Foundation [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/295.html] which financially supporting young composers through grants awarded on the recommendation of its staff of musicians and experts.

Fromm's proteges include Benjamin Lees, Ben Weber and Elvin Epstein. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865368,00.html]

An annual "Paul Fromm Concert" of contemporary classical music is performed annually at the University of Chicago in his memory. [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9502/Feb95Events.html] The Paul Fromm Award is given annually by the Tanglewood Music Center in his name.

Paul Fromm was married to University of Chicago psychology professor and writer Erika Fromm whom he met in Germany in 1936 and married in 1938 shortly before emigrating to the United States. [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/030612/fromm.shtml]

ee also

*20th century classical music

ources

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865368,00.html Rescuer of Necktie Salesmen, Time Magazine, July 23, 1956]

External links

* [http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/fromm.html Fromm Music Foundation]


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