Bert Silving

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Bert Silving (born December 10, 1887 as Berthold Silbiger in Vienna , † February 9, 1948 in New York ) was an Austrian violinist, composer, arranger, singer, author and radio pioneer.

Life

Bert Silving was born as Berthold Silbiger. His father was from Hungary and worked as an insurance officer. Silbiger studied violin playing at the Vienna Music Academy from 1898 to 1904 . After passing the state examination, he gave concerts as a violin virtuoso in Germany, France and England. He became a member of the Franz Ondřiček Quartet, a chamber music association with which he toured and traveled the continent. After 1905 Silbiger was first concertmaster at the Budapest City Opera. Around 1915 he founded and directed the Budapest "Tonkünstler-Orchester". From 1919 he was permanently based in Vienna, in 1920 he took over the artistic direction of the cabaret “Chat Noir” and from 1921 was the conductor of the Schönbrunn Palace Park Orchestra.

He was also frequently a guest conductor at the Hungarian State Opera . As a side business, he ran a music lending company in Vienna, which lent sheet music with accompanying music to cinema bandmasters. Silbiger, who had his name officially changed to 'Silving' in 1928, worked for radio in Austria from an early age. In 1923 he founded the Viennese radio artist ensemble “Silving Quartett”, which was first heard on the programs of Radio Hekaphon , the first radio station in Austria, and then regularly on the 1924 newly founded “ Radio Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft ” (RAVAG).

After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, Silving emigrated to America, threatened by his ancestry, and lived in New York until his death on February 9, 1948.

Honors

In Vienna, in the thirteenth district, an alley - the Silvinggasse (Ober-St.-Veit) - has been named after him since 1981.

Works

Overview

Silving composed operettas, which usually premiered in Vienna, Preßburg (Bratislava) and German theaters, arranged entertainment and serious music, and wrote numerous songs. He published writings on the radio. The magazine “Der Kapellmeister” edited by him did not get past the first issue in 1924.

Operettas
  • “Erénypróba” [Tugendprobe] (T: Siegmund Fornheim) premiered in Pressburg in 1910
  • "The Story of Magic Slippers" (T: Robert Weil ) 1947/48
Song and dance hits
  • At night / stone cutter. Sung by Bert Silving with Isy Geiger Orchestra. Columbia Graphophone Co. D-15 609 - Die number WH 1449 (H 1449)
  • Fairy tales that the wind tells us: Tango / Bert Silving. Merton Chapel. Parlophone P. 2158 (mx. B2-8567-II) 30cm
  • Fairy tales that the wind tells us: Tango milonga, op. 149 / Bert Silving - text by Rud. Berdach Walfried. Sándor Józsi Chapel. Odeon A 42 170 (Be 5204)
  • One fine day it will be over (Wiener Lied) / Music by Bert Silving - Text by Peter Herz. The Viennese radio artist quartet Bert Silving. Voice and violin solo: Bert Silving. Ultraphon A 3520 (mx. 15 546) - November 1930
  • One fine day it will be over: Lied / Bert Silving. Odeon A 44 821 (Ve 1180)
Sheet music editions
  • Publisher: Wien - Leipzig Ludwig Doblinger - Verlag (Bernhard Herzmansky)
    • One fine day it will be over (song). By Bert Silving. Viennese song. For voice (s) and piano. Published by Doblinger Music Publishers (DB.89-00061)
    • One fine day it will be over. Song. Music Bert Silving, op. 142, words by Peter Herz. Popular edition for voice and piano. Vienna-Leipzig: Doblinger, PN D. 6397, cop. 1924. - 3 pp.
    • Silving Bert: I have a taste for Vienna, op.154, waltz song, words by Leo Einöhrl, Verlag Josef Blaha / Ludwig Doblinger, before 1926
    • A singing trip to Vienna, a cheerful concert, radio and sound film potpourri by Bert Silving. Vienna, Ludwig Doblinger Verlag, not printed (1920s) (paperback - 1925)
  • UFA music publishers
    • You were lucky for me. Composer: Bert Silving. Rubric: Singing. Format: notes. Instrumentation: voice and piano. Publisher: UFA Musikverlage. Order no .: UFA16045
    • Fairy tales that the wind tells us. Composer: Bert Silving. Rubric: Singing. Format: sheet music, scoring: voice and piano. Publisher: UFA Musikverlage, order no .: UFA16047
    • You shake hands and say goodbye. Composer: Bert Silving. Rubric: Singing. Format: notes. Instrumentation: voice and piano. Publisher: UFA Musikverlage. Order no .: UFA16046

Audio documents

  • "Nachts" (Steinschneider) sung by Bert Silving with Isy Geiger orchestra. Mount Columbia D-15 609 (H 1449). 1927
  • Potpourri from the operetta “Du liebe, gold'ne Meisterin” (Edmund Eysler) Viennese radio artist band Bert Silving. Odeon A 186112 [Ve 1374²],
Part I: 1. So ein Wein (Solo: Bert Silving) 2. Journeyman's March (choir singing) and Odeon A 186113 [Ve 1375²],
Part II: 1. O dear, golden master (Solo: Bert Silving) 2. O Jaromir (choral singing). Vienna, 1928
  • One fine day it will be over. Lied (Bert Silving - Peter Herz) Richard Bitterauf, baritone, with orchestra. Homocord 4-3488 (mx. H-62 265), Berlin 1928
  • One fine day it will be over. Lied (Bert Silving) Bohème-Orchester [as “Salon Orchester Martina”] on Beka B.5276 (mx.32 688), Berlin at the end of 1927

literature

  • Christian Fastl: Silving, Bert. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  • Frick, Friedrich (Ed.): Small Biographical Lexicon of Violinists. From the beginning of the violin to the beginning of the 20th century. Books on Demand GmbH June 2009 - paperback - 596 pages paperback. ISBN 3-8370-3907-2 .
  • Fritz, Elisabeth Theresia and Kretschmer, Helmut (ed.): Vienna music history. Folk music and Wienerlied. Lit Verlag GmbH Vienna, Vienna 2006. 514 pages. ISBN 3-8258-8659-X
  • Gamliel, Hans: Vienna 2, Tempelgasse No. 3c. Memories 1943–1953, Part 5. In: David, Heft 81, 06.2009 [5]
  • Jochum, Manfred: The shallow wishes of the masses or: The radio is there for education and upbringing! From the early days of radio in Austria 1924–1932. In: Searching for traces. Journal for the history of adult education and science popularization, 1996, no. 1, pp. 4–15.
  • Kirschner, Willy: “Four stars in the sky of art” An essay by Willy Kirschner, in: Wien im Lied und Tanz, 1st year, issues 1 and 2, Vienna 1932, on pp.169-178. On pages 175-177 there is a fictional interview with Bert Silving.
  • Silving, Bert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 271.
  • Stengel-Gerigk = Stengel, Theo; Gerigk, Herbert (arr.): Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. Bernhard Hahnefeld, Berlin 1940. 9 pp., Sp. 11-380, Oln.
  • Weissweiler, Eva: weed out! : the "Lexicon of Jews in Music" and its murderous consequences. Among employees by Lilli Weissweiler. Dittrich, Cologne 1999. 444 p .; 21 cm. - Contains pp. 181–375 reprint of: Lexikon der Juden in der Musik, Berlin 1940. - ISBN 3-920862-25-2
  • Untitled: Robert Weil. A pillar of cabaret, in: Illustrierte Neue Welt, Vienna: August / September 2006, p. 34f.
  • author: Robert Weil at: Österr. Cabaret archive [6]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ondricek, Franz (* 1839 Prague, † 1922 Milan), Violin virtuoso u. Chamber music players (Ondricek Quartet) conductors and instrumentalists Compilation around 1960 ( Memento from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Franz Ondřiček was director of the New Vienna Conservatory, which was founded as a private music school in 1909 and was later graduate from Georg Kreisler , before it was closed in autumn 1938, cf. New Vienna Conservatory and a portrait of Franz Ondricek. ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Frick 2009, page 475
  3. ↑ cf. Christian Fastl: Silving, Bert. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 . and [1] “Mail order business connected with a large music lending company, holds extensive stock of music”.
  4. ↑ cf. Stengel-Gerigk sp. 277
  5. ↑ Silvings Internationale Z. Der Kapellmeister 1, 1924 (no longer published)
  6. ↑ [2]
  7. ↑ [3]
  8. ↑ [4]
personal data
SURNAME Silving, Bert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silbiger, Berthold (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist, composer, arranger, singer, author and radio pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1948
Place of death new York