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Josef Schmid (1890, in Germany – 1969, in New York City) was a conductor, composer, and composition teacher. He was one of the first students of Alban Berg, with whom he studied before World War I. As a conductor Schmid had been an assistant to both Zemlinsky and Erich Kleiber. As a composer Schmid was associated with Berg and Webern but considered himself a musical "godson" of Schoenberg. After World War I Schmid emigrated to New York City and established himself as a teacher of composition, basing his teaching on the writings of Schoenberg. His composition students included Joe Maneri, Gus Pardalis, Harold Seletsky, Robert Di Domenica, and Frieda Schmitt-Lermann.

References

1. Theodor W. Adorno, Alban Berg, Henri Lonitz, Adorno-Berg Correspondence, 1925–1935
2. Joseph Henry Auner, A Schoenberg reader: documents of a life
3. AllAboutJazz.com Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
4. Adorno-Berg-Lonitz, op. cit.
5. AllAboutJazz.com, op. cit.

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