# Emanuel Balaban

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{{short description|American pianist and conductor}}
'''Emanuel Balaban''' (January 27, 1895 – April 17, 1973) was a pianist and free-lance conductor who taught at the [Eastman School of Music](/source/Eastman_School_of_Music) and later at the [Juilliard School](/source/Juilliard_School).<ref>Birth date from ''U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925'' on Ancestry.com, accessed Mar. 4, 2016. (access by subscription)</ref><ref name=nytobit>"Emanuel Balaban of Juilliard Staff," ''New York Times'' (Apr. 18, 1973), p. 50. [obituary]</ref>

Balaban was born to Joseph Balaban and Olga Ribman Balaban in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), New York.<ref>Information concerning parentage from "Slatoff-Gitlitz Family Tree," on Ancestry.com, accessed Mar. 4, 2016. (access by subscription).</ref> He attended the [Institute of Musical Art](/source/Institute_of_Musical_Art), then studied under [Fritz Busch](/source/Fritz_Busch) in Germany. Although a pianist (he was accompanist to [Efrem Zimbalist](/source/Efrem_Zimbalist), [Mischa Elman](/source/Mischa_Elman) and [Erica Morini](/source/Erica_Morini)), conducting was his goal. He was a conductor at the [Dresden State Opera](/source/Semperoper) and led orchestras in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, New York, and Washington D.C.<ref name=holmes>John L. Holmes, ''Conductors On Record'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982), p. 32.</ref>

From 1929 through 1944 he was Director of the Opera Department at the [Eastman School of Music](/source/Eastman_School_of_Music). In 1945 he conducted a [Naumburg Orchestral Concert](/source/Naumburg_Orchestral_Concerts), in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Notable Events and Performers |url=https://naumburgconcerts.org/notable-events-and-performers |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Naumburg Orchestral Concerts |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1947 he joined the faculty of the [Juilliard School](/source/Juilliard_School), a position he held until his death. From 1953 to 1956 he was on the faculty of the Berkshire Music Center.<ref name=nytobit/>

{{ external media|width=250px|audio1=You may hear recordings by Emanuel Balaban collaborating with various soloists and orchestras in the 1920s and 1940s [https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Emanuel+Balaban%22<br> '''Here on archive.org'''] }}

He recorded two operas composed by [Gian Carlo Menotti](/source/Gian_Carlo_Menotti), ''[The Medium](/source/The_Medium)'' and ''[The Telephone](/source/The_Telephone_(opera))''.

Balaban died at [St. Barnabas Hospital](/source/St_Barnabas_Hospital_(Bronx)) in New York City. He was married to Priscilla Brown who survived him, as did his siblings Edward Balaban and Stella Appelbaum.<ref name=nytobit/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://catalog.nypl.org/record=b20910098~S1 Emanuel Balaban scrapbook] (Balaban's personal scrapbook) in the [http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa/music-division Music Division] of [http://www.nypl.org/locations/lpa The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]

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