Werner R. Heymann

Born into a Berlin merchant family, Heymann sat at the piano by three, took violin lessons at five and was composing by eight; he joined the Philharmonic at twelve and presented an orchestral work at sixteen. After serving in World War I he turned to theatre, scoring Ernst Toller’s Transformation and becoming a pianist at Max Reinhardt’s cabaret Sound and Smoke with Friedrich Hollaender. Introduce… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources