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Paul Abraham

Paul Abraham

Born: 2nd November 1892, Apatin, Austria-Hungary

Died: 6th May 1960, Hamburg, Germany

Nationality: Hungarian

Paul Abraham was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. His specialty – and own innovation – was the insertion of jazz interludes into operettas.

Abraham was born in Apatin, Austria-Hungary (today Serbia), and studied at the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest from 1910 to 1916. He studied cello with Adolf Schiffer and composition with Viktor Herzfeld.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Abraham

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  • Jonas Kaufmann's Magische Töne

    10th Apr 2026by Katherine Cooper

    The superstar tenor sounds in mint condition on this fascinating exploration of operetta by Hungarian-born composers including Emmerich Kálmán, Franz Léhar and Paul Abraham, supported by wonderfully idiomatic playing from the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra under Dirk Kaftan.

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