Wilhelm Grosz

Wilhelm Grosz was born in Vienna. He studied under Franz Schreker at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and followed his teacher to Berlin, where he worked as a composer, conductor, and, above all, as one the first record producers.

Due to Nazi rule, Grosz resettled in England in 1934. During his exile there, he composed many hits that are still known today. Although influenced by late Romanticism, Grosz can stylistically count himself among the representatives of the Tin Pan Alley era.

Following an invitation to Hollywood by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, he went to New York in 1939 and died the same year of a heart attack while improvising for his friends from the Rosenkavalier. The estate of Wilhelm Grosz was given to the Exilarte Center by his descendants living in New York.