Artur Marcell Werau

Artur Marcel Werau (also: Arthur Marcell Birnbaum, * 1887 ; † 1931 ) was an Austrian composer in the field of light music .

Life

Werau worked in Vienna before and after the First World War . He wrote numerous couplets and hits for cabaret as well as three operettas, later also for film. This resulted in collaboration with well-known lyricists such as Fritz Löhner-Beda , Benno Vigny , Arthur Rebner , Wilhelm Sterk , Louis Taufstein , Fritz Grünbaum and Ida Sinek . He developed his melodies mostly from the folk music of Eastern Europe and Yiddish music. His march couplet Rosa, we are going to Lodz, written in 1915, became particularly popular . . His catalog of works includes over 750 opus numbers .

Werau's songs were performed by well-known interpreters of the time such as Franz Engel , Armin Berg , Karl (Károly) Ujvári, Jacques Rotter and Claire Waldoff . Orchestras like those of Marek Weber , Fred Bird and Otto Dobrindt put his songs on the gramophone record and turned them into hits that were spread as far as America and Russia.

Works

Operettas

• People from today. Text by Artur Rebner and Fritz Lunzer, music by Werau with Robert Stolz and Edmund Eysler , Vienna 1918.
• The widow from India. Text by Ernst Wengraf and J. Horst, WP 1920.
• The train to the west. Equipment revue in 22 pictures. Music: Fred Mêlé, Fritz Lehner, Austin Egen , Artur M. Werau, Rolf Röder and Willi Kollo . Texts: Bruno Hardt-Warden and Willi Kollo, UA Berlin August 7, 1926.

Bat

• Rosa, we're going to Lodz! March Couplet (hymn about our 30.5 cm mortar , called Rosa), T: Fritz Löhner-Beda. Kreun, Vienna 1915
• Dolly. T .: Karl-Ewert. For röst och piano. Stockholm: Abr. Lundquist, 1916.
• You women, you girls. you women of Vienna. T .: Otto Hein. Rudolf Pawliska, Vienna around 1916.
• When I see you I have to cry. Shimmy, T .: Fritz Löhner-Beda, Wiener Boheme-Verlag Vienna 1923 3 pp.
• In Hawaii. The Hawaiian-step, Edition Accord, Berlin-Leipzig-Vienna 1923
• I'll go with you to the end of the world! Lied and Tango milonga, Op. 617. T .: Egon Schubert, Edition Bristol, Vienna 1923.
• If you think you can offend me Shimmy, op.626, T .: Kurt Robitschek . G. Steiner, New York, 1924.
• Rikola Shimmy. op. 633, T .: Ada, 1924
• And the ox laughed. T .: Fritz Löhner-Beda, 1925.
• Oh Pimprinella! 6/8 one-step, 1927.
• Popocatepetl Surabaya Trot. T .: Benno Vigny, 1927.
• You stole my wife from me, thank you very much! Lied and Foxtrot, T .: Fritz Löhner-Beda and Wilhelm Sterk
• Blonde mouse. Shimmy and Foxtrot, T .: Wilhelm Sterk

Couplets, cabaret

• One should not associate with Pollaks. T .: W. Seliger, Franz Engel (voc), Karl Inwald (p), Columbia DV. 924. WHA 27²
• What do people live from? T .: Oskar Kanitz based on an idea by Artur Kaps ; Franz Engel (voc), Karl Inwald (p), Columbia DV. 924. WHA 428²
• The work in Vienna. T .: O. Kanitz u. F. Engel, Franz Engel (voc), Karl Inwald (p), Columbia DV. 925. WHA 429
• At the post office counter. T .: Fritz Grünbaum, Franz Engel (voc), Karl Inwald (p), HMV AM 3323 (BL 6829²)
• That's how everything turns in the world! (T .: Louis Taufstein), Armin Berg (voc), Karl Inwald (p), Odeon A. 186.210 (Ve 1803)
• You have to be thrifty! T .: Louis Taufstein, Armin Berg (voc) Karl Inwald (p), Odeon A. 186.190 (Ve 1804)
• The fateful button on the collar. T .: Fritz Löhner-Beda, Armin Berg voc., Karl Inwald, (p) Odeon A 186.211 (Ve 1807)
• You can see how women are today. T .: Hans Lengsfelder & Leonhard K. Märker Armin Berg ; on the piano: Karl Inwald. Odeon A.186.212 (Ve 2229)
• In Boskowitz and Holleschau. Foxtrot Parody, op.790, T .: Julius Brammer , Karczag, Vienna 1929
• Today in a hundred years everything is long over. T .: Ida Sinek Roserl Berndt (voc), Karl Inwald (p), HMV AM 3321 / 70-1801 (BL 6796²). Dec. 12, 1930
• Objectivity in eroticism. T .: Ida Sinek, Roserl Berndt (voc), Karl Inwald (p), HMV AM 3321 / 70-1802 (BL 6798-1)
• Things that make you happy and explode. T .: Ida Sinek, Roserl Berndt (voc) On the piano: Karl Inwald. HMV AM 3322 / 70-1804 (BL 6799-1)
• Love engaged married. T .: Hans Pflanzer, Roserl Berndt (voc), Karl Inwald (p), HMV AM 3322 / 70-1803 (BL 6797-2). Dec 15, 1930.
• How happy I am on the weekend! T .: Hans Planter
• The cow. T .: H. Hofer

Movie

• High from the Dachstein. Austria 1928, directed by Robert Wohlmuth , as an actor and composer of the film music.
• Two worlds . Germany / Great Britain 1930, directed by Ewald André Dupont , as co-composer of film music (using foreign compositions, alongside Victor Hollaender , Robert Stolz , Otto Stransky )

The music for Georg Jacoby's sound film Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau aka “ Sturm im Wasserglas ” after Bruno Frank (1930/31) was composed by Stephan Weiss , not by Artur M. Werau.

Audio documents

• That's what's strange about women , Couplet (T .: Louis Taufstein) Armin Berg, humorist. "Gramola" Record AN 412 / 72-633 (mx. CW 2907-II)
• Fiedel das alten Liedel (op. 755. Text by Beda), Jacques Rotter , tenor in German, with orchestra. Electrola EG 407 / 942.859 (Bw.661-I)
• Fiddle the old song , Marek Weber and his orchestra. Electrola EG393 (mx.Bw 623-I)
• In Boskowitz and Holleschau , Foxtrot song, Viennese Apollo-Jazz, conductor Karl Krall: Pathé X 61019 (mx. 38 038) Vienna, mid-1930
• In Hawaii (The Hawaiian-step) , dance orchestra "Metropol". Polyphonic 31 127
• Yodelling Revue (Text: Beda) Armin Berg, humorist. "His Master's Voice" AM 2192 / 29-942.007 (mx. BA 142-1) Vienna, July 5, 1929
• Oh Pimprinella : 6/8 One-step, Fred Bird , The Salon Symphonie Jazzband. Homocord 4-2213 (die number 18 875-1)
• Oh Pimprinella (T: A. Rebsal), Gabriel Formiggini with his orchestra, with vocals. Vox 8444 (Matrix number 1632-BB)
• And the ox laughed , Efim Schachmeister msKünstler-Ensemble. Gramophone 19 479 (mx. 236 bg)
• And the ox laughed , Ernest Balle, Male vocal solo, with orchestra, Victor (BVE-35439) 4/29/1926
• And the ox laughed , Adolf Engel, Male vocal solo, with orchestra, Victor 78944 (BVE-36603) 9/29/1926
• When I see you I have to cry : Shimmy by Artur M. Werau. Orchestra with refra singing. Kalliope K 403 (die number Zw 3303)
• When I see you I have to cry . Adolf Engel, Male vocal solo, with orchestra, Victor 77931 (B-31744) 1/21/1925
• When I see you I have to cry , Engelbert Milde (voc) Vox 05087-B
• When I see you I have to cry , Vox orchestra with vocals, conductor: C. Woitschach. Vox 1579 (mx. 2169 B), ca.1924
• How happy I am on the weekend! Foxtrot song, homocord orchestra with refraing singing: Luigi Bernauer . Homocord 4-2639 (die number TM 20 174)

Audio samples

When I see you I have to cry. Shimmy (Artur M. Werau): Marek Weber Orchestra . Lift up Parlophone P.1569-I (mx. Z 6530). 1923

Fiedel das alten Liedel / Artur M. Werau, text by Beda. Saxophone orchestra Dobbri with refrain singing. Beka B.6055-II (mx. 33 607)

Oh Pimprinella: One-Step / Artur M. Werau. Dajos Béla dance orchestra, Odeon

You stole my wife from me, thank you very much! Lied and Foxtrot (Text: Fritz Löhner-Beda) Saxophone Orchestra Dobbri with vocals: Max Mensing . Apply Beka 37 085 L (Austria). 1927

How happy I am on the weekend! (Artur M. Werau. Text by Hans Pflanzer) Claire Waldoff with instrumental accompaniment. Electrola EG482 / 8-43 043 (Bw 743-IV) apply. 1928

Jazz variations based on AMWerau's “How happy I am on the weekend!”: Barnabás von Géczy Orchestra . Parlophone B.12012 (mx. 36 460)

"At the post office counter" Text: Fritz Grünbaum , music: AM Werau. Lecture: Franz Engel. On the piano: Karl Inwald. HMV AM 3323 (BL 6829²)

In Boskowitz and Holleschau. Couplet. Playing time, 3:22. Author Werau, Artur M. [composer]. Contributors, Rotter, Jacques [text]; Jacques Rotter with piano accompaniment, Gramola [label]. Numbers: AM 2190 (BA 143-III), add. 04.1929.

That's how everything turns in the world! Couplet (AMWerau - Louis Taufstein) Armin Berg; on the piano: Karl Inwald. Odeon A. 186.210 (Matrix number Ve 1803)

You have to be thrifty! Couplet (AMWerau - Louis Taufstein) Armin Berg; on the piano: Karl Inwald. Parlophone B.47 141 (mx. 85 126), also: Odeon A. 186.190 (Matrix number Ve 1804)

You can see how women are today. Couplet (AMWerau - Louis Taufstein): Armin Berg (vocals), piano accompaniment Karl Inwald. Odeon A. 186.212 (Matrix number Ve 1811)

Re-releases

CD. mono; 12 cm & booklet. Preiser Records, Released 1999: Armin Berg sings: 18 tracks from 1931 to 1937. Enth .: This is how everything turns in the world. One has to be thrifty. The fateful button on the collar. You can see how women are today / AM Werau. Interpr .: Armin Berg, [Gsg]; On the piano: Karl Inwald.

CD. mono; 12 cm & booklet. Preiser Records, BSIN01639286, Released 1999: Farkas, Karl / Grünbaum, Fritz / Engel, Franz - old masters of humor. Composer: Ralph Benatzky, AM Werau. "The 3 old masters of humor Fritz Grünbaum, Karl Farkas, Franz Engel in their original recordings." Contains as track 14: Franz Engel: At the post office counter (03:28)

CD Duophon Records Edition Berliner Musenkinder: Always ran an 'Speck: Claire Waldoff. Contains as track 17: In love, engaged, married (AM Werau / Hans Pflanzer)

CD Popular Jewish Artists - Vienna: Music & Entertainment 1903–1936. Trikont order no. US-291, published 2001. Contains: One should not associate with Pollaks / What do people live on? Franz Engel, on the piano: Karl Inwald.

literature

• Robert Dachs : The archive : “The work in Vienna” Words: Oskar Kanitz - Music: AM Werau / “Nur Fisolen” song by Franz Engel Orig. Portrait photo with orig. Autograph on the back.
• Franziska Ernst: Hermann Leopoldi: Biography of a Jewish-Austrian entertainer and composer. Thesis . Univ. Vienna, 2010.
• Murray G. Hall: Austrian publishing history 1918–1938: The Rikola group. 1984.
• Reinhard Hippen, Ursula Lücking, Guy Walter (eds.): "To submit means to lie": 80 years of German cabaret. Verlag Schmidt & Bödige, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-88193-011-6 .
• Ulrike Leitner: Take a look at that! Highlights of the Austrian cabaret. Amalthea-Signum-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85002-679-6 .
• Moritz Oriole: Halalí. Volume 2: 10 portraits . Orpheus and Sons publishing house, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-938647-18-9 , p. 228 u. 241.
• Gerhard Scheit: The expulsion is not a tour. “Austrian Music” in exile. In: Barbara Denscher (Ed.): Art & Culture in Austria: The 20th Century. Vienna / Munich 1999, p. 131.
• Björn Siegel: Austrian Judaism between East and West: The Israelitische Allianz zu Wien 1873-1938. (= Campus Research. Volume 944). Campus Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39191-5 .
• Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon. Part 2: Catalog of composers. Volume 1, ed. Dorothea Javorsky, ISBN 3-7952-0203-5 .
• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 179.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ida Sinek: actress, lyricist, cabaret writer and composer, * 1888–?, Cf. univie.ac.at
2. ↑ cf. Publications on American Victor records 1925/26 at ucsb.edu a . Russian-Records.com
3. ↑ epub.oeaw.ac.at , cf. also operone.de ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ * 1897, cf. Ernst Wengraf at; Heinz Rupp, Carl-Ludwig Lang: German Literature Lexicon. Volume 30: Weisbrod - Wiel. 3. Edition. Sp. 3221; also: Michael Stolle, Cartoon Tomb »Blog Archive» Refraingesang: Austin Egen ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Hippen et al., P. 177.
6. ↑ available in: BSB Munich, cf. Impeccably built. In: Der Spiegel. 32/1974: “The composer and lyricist of this battle song (Copyright 1915) were two Austrian Jews named Artur Marcel Werau and Dr. Fritz Löhner. Werau died in 1931, Löhner was murdered by the Nazis in a concentration camp in 1942. ”; see. also Arnold Rypens at originals.be ( memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and opacplus 
7. ↑ available in: BSB Munich, cf. opacplus
8. ↑ Sheet music ARTHUR M WERAU - IN HAWAII - ONE-STEP - 1923 pictured at cssdots.com
9. ↑ "On this occasion, the" Rikola Shimmy "was born (words by Ada, music by AM Werau, Op.633) When it was first performed on February 11, 1924 on the Rikola Redoute to which it was dedicated this latest shimmy by the composer known for his many hits has also proven to be a first-class "hit". Upon popular request, we then put it in print and hereby offer it to the honorable music trade! " (Anzeiger, No. 8, February 22, 1924, p. 97), cf. The Rikola Group
10. ^ Anthology Vienna, Boheme-Verlag / (Lpz.-Wien), Doblinger / Bln., Drei Masken 1921-23. and Lpz./Paris/Wien, Bosworth & Co., 1921. 6 issues in 4 °. OBrosch m. color cover illustration, p. 1- Artur M. Werau / Benno Vigny: Popocatepetl-Surabaya-Trot; 2- Leo Fall (Arr.): Pompadour-Waltz (piano reduction based on motifs from R. Schanzer and E. Welisch's operetta Madame Pompadour); 3- Willy Engel-Berger / Benno Vigny: A small apartment from the Biedermeier period. Shimmy; 4- H. Nürnberg: In the last dance lesson (solo piano): 5- WH Squire: Im Dornbusch (for solo piano, four hands); 6- Benno Vigny: Go out with me again! Wienerlied, music v. Hans May. Offered at AbeBooks
11. ↑ cf. Leitner pp. 227 and 235-236
12. ↑ cf. Leitner pp. 142 and 237
13. ↑ cf. univie.ac.at
14. ↑ to listen to at europeana.eu
15. ↑ 1903–1979, cf. Monika Kornberger: Lengsfelder, Hans Jan. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
16. ↑ original Leonhard Karl Kuhmaerker, Austrian composer (born August 1, 1911 Vienna; † 1993 New York, USA), DNB , ÖML Austrian Music Lexicon on line
17. ↑ the text takes off on the path of Jewish artists from the Moravian province to the metropolis of Vienna; on Jews in Moravia cf. Seal p. 78 f.
18. ↑ cf. 'Theresienstadt, the most beautiful city in the world!' - Chansons and satires, at zwockhaus.de
19. ↑ cf. filmportal.de Up from the Dachstein
20. ↑ filmportal.de Two Worlds; Fig. Of the cinema poster at filmmuseum-hamburg.de ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ↑ cf. filmportal.de The flower woman from Lindenau and IMDb [1]
22. ↑ cf. dismarc.org
23. ↑ cf. phonomuseum.at (PDF; 1.0 MB)
24. ↑ cf. dismarc.org
25. ↑ DNB
26. ↑ dismarc.org
27. ↑ DNB
28. ↑ dismarc.org
29. ↑ dismarc.org
30. ↑ DNB
31. ↑ listen on youtube
32. ↑ listen at gramofononline.hu ; see. Cabaret Mappamundi : "Stara piosenka" (Old song) from Mappamundi Cabaret Warsaw program, October 2011: "Julian Tuwim wrote the lyrics. Composing credit was given to Ralph Benatzky, but the very same tune was recorded earlier," Fiedel das alte Liedel "(Fiddle the old tune) then ostensibly written by" AM Werau "- yet since he already called it an" alte liedel "then, it probably existed already."
33. ↑ listen on youtube
34. ↑ listen on youtube
35. ↑ listen on youtube
36. ↑ listen on youtube
37. ↑ listen on youtube
38. ↑ that must be a mistake, Rotter is the interpreter; see. Publishing details: In Boskowitz and Holleschau. Foxtrot parody. Text by Julius Brammer, music by Artur M. Werau, op.790. Karczag, Vienna 1929 .
39. ↑ to be heard in the Österr. Media library
40. ↑ to be listened to at dismarc.audio (MP3; 1.6 MB)
41. ↑ to be heard at dismarc.audio (MP3; 1.3 MB)
42. ↑ to be listened to at dismarc.audio (MP3; 1.5 MB)
43. ↑ quoted at Bock's Music Shop
44. ↑ See Michael Aylward, Reissues, at Der Yidisher Gramofon
45. ↑ cf. univie.ac.at (PDF; 1.4 MB)
46. ↑ online at verlagsgeschichte.murrayhall.com