Alexander Krakauer

Alexander Krakauer

Alexander Krakauer (born December 24, 1866 in Komorn , † June 18, 1894 in Graz ) was an Austrian composer and writer of Viennese songs .

Life

Obituary in the NFP

Remains of the tombstone

Alexander Krakauer, son of the Jewish fan manufacturer Moriz Krakauer, studied violin with Wilhelm Kleinecke in Vienna and also attended the Technical University in Vienna from 1885 to 1887 . Thanks to the support of his father, however, he was able to devote himself to music alone; due to his severe lung disease, any other profession was probably impossible for him.

He composed Viennese songs, for which he mostly wrote the lyrics himself. His songs enjoyed great popularity and were u. a. sung by Alexander Girardi , Edmund Guschelbauer and Julius Wittels (1860–1899); the sheet music printed by the music publishers Doblinger and Blaha experienced high editions. His Singspiel Der Herr Franz was successfully premiered in 1890 at the Carl Theater . In 1891 Krakauer published the musical parodic interlude A modern marriage .

After a spa stay in Egypt (1892) and in Abbazia , he also wanted to visit Bad Gleichenberg when he suddenly died of a hemorrhage on the way to Graz .

Alexander Krakauer was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery, Gate 1 (Group 20, Row 22, No. 14) on June 21. During the Second World War, the tombstone was almost completely destroyed by an aerial bomb struck nearby.

Works

You good Heavenly Father , title page

Text and music by Alexander Krakauer, unless otherwise stated:

• But that's how it has to be . Sung by Josef Müller.
• Accord waltz for pianoforte.
• Farm song . Text by Carl Elmar.
• Everything has already been there . Sung by Josef Müller.
• Everything is out of stock . Sung by Edmund Guschelbauer.
• When the moon stepped out of the clouds . Couplet in the posse: "The hunt for a person".
• Ow! Dancing . Text by P. Rivalier (d. I. Pius Baron von Meysenburg). Sung by Fraulein Augustin and Mr. Wittels.
• Off to Africa , op.23. Waltz couplet.
• Blue eyes , op. 35. A waltz in the set operetta “Susette”. Sung by Mrs. Marie Schwarz.
• There is a fire , op. 30. Couplet insert in the posse "Wiener Luft". Sung by Alexander Girardi.
• There gehma . Sung by Franz Maier.
• The golden heart of Vienna . Couplet from the farce “A day in Vienna”.
• That depends on it! Sung by Josef Müller.
• The women regiment . Marching song.
• The worker . Wienerlied. To my dear friend Julius Wittels.
• Work up! Folk piece with song, text by Friedrich Antony (d. I. Anton Nikolowsky).

1. Because I am an emotional person .

2. Just don't lose hope .

3. That must be a mistake .

4. The whistling in Wean scho the sparrows on the roof .

5. Blessed Raimund look oba on Vienna .

6. Women's emancipation .

• True love is not! Couplet insert in the operetta "Lachende Erben" by Charles Weinberger . Sung by Julius Wittels.
• Danube songs , op.29. Waltz.
• He doesn’t eat while sleeping! Couplet.
• Mei 'Caro a . Sung by Franz Maier and Julius Wittels in the piece "Frau Venus".
• Eduard, you thief of the heart , op. 26. Waltz-Rondo. Sung by Miss Minna Rott.
• One day in Vienna . Posse with singing by Pius Rivalier. Music by Alexander Krakauer. M. Täncer, Vienna, 1893
• Fine and vulgar! Couplet.
• Gold and Silver , op 159. Song. Text by Carl M. Schlesinger.
• Gretchen , op. 22. Polka française with text. Kindly dedicated to Mr. Alexander Girardi.
• Der Herr Franz op. 39. Viennese Singspiel in one act; Text by Alois Berla .
• I'm a real Weana, like old school . Song. Text by Engelbert Herzog.
• In old age one becomes childish again . Couplet.
• Is already whipped . Sung by Franz Maier.
• Childhood dream . Poem by Oscar Beck for piano and voice.
• No rose without thorns . Couplet. Sung by Julius Wittels.
• Declaration of love . Singing waltz.
• Mei Bua . Song from the farce "A day in Vienna". Text by Pius Rivalier. Sung by Miss Augustin.
• My love lives on the Danube beach . Song.
• My Wett'l am Spinett'l! Choir song. Couplet.
• Mister Menelaus (Pius Rivalier and Alexander Krakauer), (1896 Vienna)
• O you beautiful Adelheid . March.
• Description of person . Couplet from the farce "The Honeymoon Together".
• Prater March , Op. 24. Sung by Edmund Guschelbauer.
• Sapphire . Waltz.
• Tour and back . Couplet. Sung by Edmund Guschelbauer.
• Over the garden fence ; op. 33. Humorous song. Text by Carl Lindau . Dedicated to Mr. Joseph Josephi.
• Vindobona thua di 'comforting , op.25 Waltz song. Sung by Edmund Guschelbauer. Respectfully dedicated to the well-born Mrs. Leopoldine Werthner.
• What human hands can do . Couplet.
• Wiener Schusterbubenlied , op. 32. Sung by Alexander Girardi.
• Laundry girl waltz . Based on motifs from the Singspiel “Der Herr Franz”.
• Wiener-Musik , op. 42. Wiener Lied. Text by P. Rivalier.

Quote

My darling lives on the Danube
beach D'rum is always drawn to me,
my darling is my fatherland,
my darling is my Vienna!

(The refrain of the song of the same name)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julius Wittels †. In:  Wiener Bilder , No. 12/1899 (4th volume), March 19, 1899, p. 8, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ In the Carltheater. In:  Österreichische Musik- und Theaterzeitung , issue 6/1890, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). .

Remarks

1. ↑ Compiled from the holdings of the music collection of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

literature

• Josef Koller: The Viennese folk singing in old and new times . Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1931, pp. 90, 117f.
• Rudolf Sieczyński : Viennese song, Viennese wine, Viennese language . Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1947, pp. 55, 139f.
• 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).

Lexica entries:

• Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna. Communications about the architects, sculptors, stage artists, graphic artists, journalists, painters, musicians and writers living in Vienna . Daberkow, Vienna 1893.
• Antonicek-Pemmer:  Krakauer Alexander. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 196.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 588.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 736.
• Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . (Volume 2). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Krakauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alexander Krakauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Part of Alexander Krakauer's estate in the manuscript collection and the music collection of the Vienna Library in the City Hall

Newspaper reports

• (News of his death :) Alexander Krakauer. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 10711/1894, June 19, 1894, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
• Daily chronicle. (...) Seventieth birthday of the couplet composer Krakauer. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 25966/1936, December 23, 1936, p. 2, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .