Adolf Hirsch

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Adolf Hirsch (born February 15, 1866 in Munich , † April 19, 1931 in Vienna ; pseudonym Adolfi ) was an Austrian composer of Viennese songs , folk singer , music publisher and variety director.

Life

Adolf Hirsch, son of the popular singer Albert Hirsch and his wife Minna, b. Hänlein became a student of Anton Bruckner at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music . After a few appearances in the provinces, he had to give up his plan to become an opera conductor because of a serious eye problem.

In 1904 he was Kapellmeister in the Singspielhalle "Fideles Haus". Around 1914 he founded his own entertainment establishment "Zum stupmen Kerl" at Salvatorgasse 3, which he moved to Mariahilfer Strasse in the 1920s . He composed Viennese songs mainly on his own texts and wrote couplets, which he performed himself with great success. Thanks to his astonishing musical memory, he was familiar with the entire relevant song repertoire. He was able to fulfill the wishes of the audience when he asked: "What should I play ...?"

Most of his works were self-published by “Adolfi”. Lecture folders for folk singers appeared there in 1930 under the title Ladies Repertoire Directory and Men's Repertoire Directory , each with around 50 numbers written by him.

After Austria's "Anschluss" in 1938, many of his works were destroyed because their creator was Jewish .

The burial at Vienna's Central Cemetery, Old Jewish Part, Gate 1 (Group 52, Row 45, No. 78) took place on April 22, 1931.

Works

Title page of a vocal edition by Wiener-Wald
Text and music by Adolf Hirsch, unless otherwise stated:
  • German master noble boy . Life picture in nine scenes.
  • Dirndl on Kirtag . Waltz for voice and pianoforte. Dedicated to Mrs. Josefine Kramer-Glöckner .
  • Through the field . Festival choir for the Kaiser Josef celebration on 29./30. November 1880.
  • Go be divorced . Song.
  • Gel ', you are my sweet darling. Song. Text by Siegmund Sträussler.
  • The confirmation . Posse in 1 act.
  • House friends polka . Song. Text by Robert Weil .
  • Heart thief . Song. Dedicated to Fritz Werner.
  • Me too . Couplet with choir.
  • Juchhe, the crown goes up! Song for solo and duet by the "stupid guy" (= Adolf Hirsch)
  • Clerk and principal . Funny scene. 1888.
  • The mason countess . Folk piece with singing in three acts. Adolfi-Verlag, Vienna undated
  • Mei Wean I'm sick again . Song of a Viennese who has returned from captivity.
  • My darling! Text by Siegmund Sträussler. Viennese folk song sung by Fraulein Anna in the Hirsch company.
  • With a little girl in a separate leather . Song.
  • Father God, you old Linagrab'n .
  • Prater life . Joke march.
  • If the dropper rises into the bowl . Song.
  • When ia clean Maderl sick . Viennese song.
  • When the violins stroke it . Wienerlied for piano and voice.
  • As the Weana imagines heaven. Wienerlied.
  • The Weaner song, that looks great . Couplet. Text by Siegmund Sträussler.
  • Viennese forest . Song.
  • Zeiserl, Zeiserl, stay in the house . Song. Text by Leo Einöhrl.

literature

  • Josef Koller: The Viennese folk singing in old and new times. Retold and self-experience. With biographies, episodes, songs, numerous illustrations and portraits based on contemporary images from the life of popular singers . Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1931, OBV , p. 115 f.
  • Hans Hauenstein : Chronicle of the Wienerlied. A foray from minstrels to dear Augustine, harpists and folk singers up to the present day . Jasomirgott-Verlag, Klosterneuburg / Vienna 1976, OBV .
  • Siegfried Lang: Lexicon of Austrian light music composers in the 20th century . Austrian Association of Composers (OKB), Vienna 1987, OBV .
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 196.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 549.
  • Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . (Volume 2). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
  • Elisabeth Th. Fritz, Helmut Kretschmer (ed.): Vienna music history: folk music and Viennese song . LIT, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-8659-2 (series: History of the City of Vienna: Volume 6).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) deaths. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 23924/1931, April 22, 1931, p. 6, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the registration archive of the City of Vienna, the place of birth is Vienna.
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adolfi (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer of Viennese songs and entertainers
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1931
Place of death Vienna