Paul Cossmann - Revision history

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	German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 in Baden-Baden; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann'''''.		German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 {{NS}} in Baden-Baden; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann'''''.

	He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann\|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann\|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.		He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann\|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann\|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.

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	{{picture\|file=Paul Cossmann.jpg\|caption='''Paul Cossmann''' (1869-1942)}}		{{picture\|file=Paul Cossmann.jpg\|caption='''Paul Cossmann''' (1869-1942)}}
	German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 in Baden-Baden; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann.		German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 in Baden-Baden; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann'''''.

	He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann\|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann\|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.		He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann\|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann\|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.
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	One letter from Tchaikovsky to Paul Cossmann has survived, dating from 1889, and has been translated into English on this website:		One letter from Tchaikovsky to Paul Cossmann has survived, dating from 1889, and has been translated into English on this website:
	* '''[[Letter 3793b]]''' – 13/25 February 1889, from [[Berlin]].		* '''[[Letter 3793b]]''' – 13/25 February 1889, from [[Berlin]].

			==External Links==
			* [[wikipedia:Paul_Nikolaus_Cossmann\|Wikipedia]]
			* {{viaf\|45096333}}

	==Notes and References==		==Notes and References==

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	{{picture\|file=Paul Cossmann.jpg\|caption='''Paul Cossmann''' (1869-1942)}}		{{picture\|file=Paul Cossmann.jpg\|caption='''Paul Cossmann''' (1869-1942)}}
	German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 in Baden-Baden ; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann.		German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 in Baden-Baden; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann.

	He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann\|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann\|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but, in 1878, they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]] where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.		He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann\|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann\|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.

	In 1889, while in [[Frankfurt]], the second stop on his itinerary through Germany, Tchaikovsky met the elder [[Bernhard Cossmann\|~~elder~~ Cossmann]] at rehearsals for his concert, and the composer was invited to dine with his former colleague later that evening. The two men had evidently not met since [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]]'s departure from Russia in 1870. An entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for 2/14 February 1889 reads: "Dinner at [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]]'s. He has aged awfully. Pleasing wife and daughters. [...] Home. Unpleasant realization of failure. At [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]]'s. Supper. Their warmth and kindness" <ref name="note1"/>. Despite some problems at that day's rehearsal and his misgivings about the conservative [[Frankfurt]] audience, Tchaikovsky's concert the following day, on 3/15 February 1889, at which he conducted his [[Suite No. 3]], ~~had~~ turned out to be a huge success. He left [[Frankfurt]] already the next morning to travel on to [[Dresden]] (where he gave another concert before [[Berlin]]), but the Cossmanns had seen him off at the railway station, and it is likely that they told him that their son, Paul, was studying in [[Berlin]], and asked him to get in touch with the young man, which he duly did while in the German capital on 15/27 February that year. Tchaikovsky also corresponded with Paul's older sister, [[Lulu Cossmann]], who became a schoolteacher.		In 1889, while in [[Frankfurt]], the second stop on his itinerary through Germany, Tchaikovsky met the elder [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]] at rehearsals for his concert, and the composer was invited to dine with his former colleague later that evening. The two men had evidently not met since [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]]'s departure from Russia in 1870. An entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for 2/14 February 1889 reads: "Dinner at [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]]'s. He has aged awfully. Pleasing wife and daughters. [...] Home. Unpleasant realization of failure. At [[Bernhard Cossmann\|Cossmann]]'s. Supper. Their warmth and kindness" <ref name="note1"/>. Despite some problems at that day's rehearsal and his misgivings about the conservative [[Frankfurt]] audience, Tchaikovsky's concert the following day, on 3/15 February 1889, at which he conducted his [[Suite No. 3]], turned out to be a huge success. He left [[Frankfurt]] already the next morning to travel on to [[Dresden]] (where he gave another concert before [[Berlin]]), but the Cossmanns had seen him off at the railway station, and it is likely that they told him that their son, Paul, was studying in [[Berlin]], and asked him to get in touch with the young man, which he duly did while in the German capital on 15/27 February that year. Tchaikovsky also corresponded with Paul's older sister, [[Lulu Cossmann]], who became a schoolteacher.

	After his studies Paul Cossmann would go on to become an influential publicist, founding, in 1904, the [[Munich]]-based ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte''. In this journal he would, among other things, champion the music of his lifelong friend, Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), the composer of ''Palestrina''. (Pfitzner, incidentally was born in [[Moscow]], where his father worked as a violinist in the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre before returning to Germany). After the First World War, Cossmann, who had converted to Christianity in 1905 (both his parents were Jewish), espoused increasingly conservative and nationalistic causes, in particular the so-called 'Dolchstoßlegende' (stab-in-the-back legend) which attributed Germany's defeat in the war to sabotage by socialists, Bolsheviks, Jews, and other dissidents within the country. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, however, Cossmann's staunch opposition to them led to his being arrested by the Gestapo that year. Although subsequently released, thanks to the intervention of Pfitzner, he was arrested again in 1938, before being finally deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. He died there of typhus in October of that year, and was remembered by the inmates who survived for his generosity and willingness to help others.		After his studies, Paul Cossmann would go on to become an influential publicist, founding, in 1904, the [[Munich]]-based ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte''. In this journal he would, among other things, champion the music of his lifelong friend, Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), the composer of ''Palestrina''. (Pfitzner, incidentally, was born in [[Moscow]], where his father worked as a violinist in the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre before returning to Germany.) After the First World War, Cossmann, who had converted to Christianity in 1905 (both his parents were Jewish), espoused increasingly conservative and nationalistic causes, in particular the so-called 'Dolchstoßlegende' (stab-in-the-back legend) which attributed Germany's defeat in the war to sabotage by socialists, Bolsheviks, Jews, and other dissidents within the country. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, however, Cossmann's staunch opposition to them led to his being arrested by the Gestapo that year. Although subsequently released, thanks to the intervention of Pfitzner, he was arrested again in 1938, before being finally deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. He died there of typhus in October of that year, and was remembered by the inmates who survived for his generosity and willingness to help others.

	==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==		==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==

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{{picture|file=Paul Cossmann.jpg|caption='''Paul Cossmann''' (1869-1942)}}
German writer, editor, and publicist (b. 6 April 1869 in Baden-Baden ; d. 19 October 1942 in Theresienstadt), born '''''Paul Nikolaus Cossmann.

He was the son of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910) and his wife [[Mathilde Cossmann|Mathilde]] (née Hilb). The [[Bernhard Cossmann|elder Cossmann]] had from 1866 to 1870 taught at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but, in 1878, they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]] where [[Bernhard Cossmann]] became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.

In 1889, while in [[Frankfurt]], the second stop on his itinerary through Germany, Tchaikovsky met the elder [[Bernhard Cossmann|elder Cossmann]] at rehearsals for his concert, and the composer was invited to dine with his former colleague later that evening. The two men had evidently not met since [[Bernhard Cossmann|Cossmann]]'s departure from Russia in 1870. An entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for 2/14 February 1889 reads: "Dinner at [[Bernhard Cossmann|Cossmann]]'s. He has aged awfully. Pleasing wife and daughters. [...] Home. Unpleasant realization of failure. At [[Bernhard Cossmann|Cossmann]]'s. Supper. Their warmth and kindness" <ref name="note1"/>. Despite some problems at that day's rehearsal and his misgivings about the conservative [[Frankfurt]] audience, Tchaikovsky's concert the following day, on 3/15 February 1889, at which he conducted his [[Suite No. 3]], had turned out to be a huge success. He left [[Frankfurt]] already the next morning to travel on to [[Dresden]] (where he gave another concert before [[Berlin]]), but the Cossmanns had seen him off at the railway station, and it is likely that they told him that their son, Paul, was studying in [[Berlin]], and asked him to get in touch with the young man, which he duly did while in the German capital on 15/27 February that year. Tchaikovsky also corresponded with Paul's older sister, [[Lulu Cossmann]], who became a schoolteacher.

After his studies Paul Cossmann would go on to become an influential publicist, founding, in 1904, the [[Munich]]-based ''Süddeutsche Monatshefte''. In this journal he would, among other things, champion the music of his lifelong friend, Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), the composer of ''Palestrina''. (Pfitzner, incidentally was born in [[Moscow]], where his father worked as a violinist in the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre before returning to Germany). After the First World War, Cossmann, who had converted to Christianity in 1905 (both his parents were Jewish), espoused increasingly conservative and nationalistic causes, in particular the so-called 'Dolchstoßlegende' (stab-in-the-back legend) which attributed Germany's defeat in the war to sabotage by socialists, Bolsheviks, Jews, and other dissidents within the country. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, however, Cossmann's staunch opposition to them led to his being arrested by the Gestapo that year. Although subsequently released, thanks to the intervention of Pfitzner, he was arrested again in 1938, before being finally deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942. He died there of typhus in October of that year, and was remembered by the inmates who survived for his generosity and willingness to help others.

==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Paul Cossmann has survived, dating from 1889, and has been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 3793b]]''' – 13/25 February 1889, from [[Berlin]].

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Diary entry for 2/14 February 1889. Here quoted from {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 258.</ref>
</references>
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