Barnabás Bakos

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Barnabás Gustav Bakos (born July 13, 1918 , † after 1967) was a Hungarian violinist , composer , arranger and orchestra leader in the field of light music .

Life

Bakos lived in West Berlin and became known in Germany through numerous recordings in the 1950s as a typical representative of what was then still known as " Gypsy music ". He worked with Lotar Olias , Karl Föderl , Rosita Serrano , Josephine Varga, Kurt Weg u. a. together.

His compositions, which are mostly based on folk melodies from the Balkans , Eastern Europe and Spain , were mainly published by the Edition Majestic by Erwin Paesike, which today belongs to the Meisel Musikverlage group .

Compositions and arrangements

  • Crazy Fiddle , Pete Alman, Schaeffers, Berlin 1952
  • Sailor Flirt , Bruno Scheer, Berlin, 1954
  • Spring in the Pussta , Otto Heinrich Noetzel Heinrichshofen 1955
  • Neva Romances , Ed. Majestic Berlin 1955
  • Puszta Gypsies , Ed. Majestic Berlin 1955
  • Hungarian Wise Men , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1957
  • Balkan Sounds , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1958
  • Puszta Sparrows , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1959
  • Rumelia , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1959
  • Gypsy Concert , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1959
  • Gypsy Rhapsody , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1961
  • Two guitars , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1961
  • Puszta Stars , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1962
  • Jolanka , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1964
  • Warsaw Stories , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1965
  • Spanish Dance Festival , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1967
  • Schwalben-Csárdás , Ed. Majestic, Berlin 1967

Recordings

  • Night mood in Budapest / Gypsy polka , Columbia ext. 5012 (1951)
  • A gypsy is longing / swallow romance / Dinicu , Columbia ext. 5015
  • Gypsy dream / The tipsy violin , Columbia ext. 5099, MZ 863
  • Gypsy tango: game, gypsy, game , with Lotar Olias and Kurt Schwabach / A gypsy is my heart , with Karl Föderl and Josef Petrak, Columbia DW 5100
  • Drive on the gypsy wagon: Foxtrot from the film “Such a Theater” with Rosita Serrano, Electrola EG 7700, His Master's Voice JK 2752
  • Popular melodies by Emmerich Kalman , parts 1. and 2., Columbia Norway, GN 1509 (1954)
  • Spring in the Puszta , Odeon 28647
  • In the gypsy cellar : Czardas potpourri about old gypsy tunes, Odeon 28648
  • Barnabas Bakos plays gypsy tunes , music publisher Argus 1982, MC 308
  • Game, Gypsies, Von der Puszta , Imperial ILP 121
  • Kurt Weg and his orchestra: Avant de mourir (solo violin: Barnabas Bakos) Electrola EG 7702
  • Virtuoso gypsy music: the orchestras Barnabas Bakos and Vesco D´Orio , (LP, RE), Die Volksplatte, SMVP 6026 (1964)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short entry (German Digital Library)
personal data
SURNAME Bakos, Barnabás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bakos, Barnabás Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian violinist, composer, arranger and orchestra leader in the field of popular music
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1918
DATE OF DEATH after 1967