Ann Ronell

Ann Ronell (born December 28, 1906 or 1908 in Omaha , Nebraska , † December 25, 1993 in New York City ) was an American composer and lyricist who is known for her jazz standard " Willow Weep for Me " (1932). With Dorothy Fields , Dana Suesse and Kay Swift , she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley composers and librettists .

Live and act

Ronell attended Radcliffe College and studied music with Walter Piston . She was later married to producer Lester Cowan . She lived mostly in New York. In addition to the music, she also wrote dialogues and lyrics to music theater pieces that are now forgotten. She was also the first conductor of a Sondtrack orchestra. She trained singers and worked as a pianist in the rehearsal of Broadway pieces.

Ronell and Frank Churchill wrote the lyrics of Disney's first hit song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (1933) (for the film of the same name). In 1939 she was supposed to go to Paris to prepare for a musical , but this was made impossible by the outbreak of World War II . She wrote lyrics and music for the Broadway musical Count Me In (1942). She also wrote songs for films such as Champagne Waltz (1937) and Blockade (1938) and wrote entire film scores , for example for the war film drama Schlachtgewitter am Monte Cassino ( Story of GI Joe ) (1945) produced by Cowan , but also worked on the film version of the Weill / Nash musical One Touch of Venus (1948), Love Happy (1949) and Main Street to Broadway (1953). Ronell was nominated for an Oscar for her song Linda and for the score for The Story of GI Joe (together with co-composer Louis Applebaum ) .

Web links

Ann Ronnell Papers in the New York Public Library
Ann Ronell at the Internet Broadway Database
Ann Ronell in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 , p. 545.

personal data
SURNAME	Ronell, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1906 or 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Omaha , Nebraska
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1993
Place of death	New York City

[HJS-1] A ^b Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 , p. 545.