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- Birth nameWalter Aptowitzer
- Walter Arlen was born on July 31, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. He was a composer, known for The City Without Jews (1924), Die Öscars (2016) and Das erste Jahrhundert des Walter Arlen (2019). He was married to Howard Myers. He died on September 3, 2023 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- SpouseHoward Myers(2008 - September 3, 2023) (his death)
- Arlen was noted to have published around 65 works and had also worked as a music critic for the Los Angeles Times.
- He escaped to the US, settled in Chicago, founded a university music department and composed copiously, mostly for voice.
- He appeared in 2023 in the Netflix documentary "Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate".
- His parents ran a department store until it was expropriated by the Nazis after Kristallnacht in 1938.
- He was a Professor Emeritus of Music at Loyola Marymount University.
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