Bertrand singer

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Bertrand Eugen Singer (born April 14, 1861 in Mainz , † after 1925) was a German composer and conductor .

Life

Bertrand Sänger composed music for the stage and film and began his career as a conductor. His period of activity lies between 1887 and 1925. He initially worked at the Residenz Theater in Dresden , where he began writing his operetta "Das Singspiel der Tsarina". From 1890 he was engaged at the German State Theater in Prague , where in 1891 "The Tsarin's Singspiel" was premiered. In 1899 he moved to the Theater des Westens in Berlin . Together with Julius Einödshofer , he composed the music for “Das Paradies der Frauen” in Berlin in 1898, a large posse with song and dance that Julius Freund had written after Le Royaume des femmes by Gaston Serpette. The play was performed in September 1898 on the occasion of the opening of the Berlin Metropol Theater .

In 1905, at that time working at the Berlin National Theater, he was hired as the first conductor for the summer theater “ Venice in Vienna ”. On July 7, 1905, he conducted the first performance of Carl Michael Ziehrer's fantastically comic operetta “Fesche Geister” in the summer theater "Etablissement Venice" in Vienna, which was a resounding success thanks to the appearance of the soubrette Mizzi Zwerenz . “Kapellmeister Bertrand Sänger led the orchestral part very safely through all obstacles to victory” wrote “f.” in the “Wiener Zeitung” of July 8, 1905.

Back in Berlin, he followed Hans Pfitzner as the first Kapellmeister at the Theater des Westens. In the autumn of 1907 the young Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted ten performances of Bertrand Sanger's fairy tale play "Rübezahl" as a Kapellmeister trainee in Zurich.

On December 15, 1908, singer conducted the 200th performance of Leo Falls' operetta “Die Dollarprinzessin” in Berlin , in which Julius Sachs , Albert Paulig , Mizzi Wirth and Maria Forescu , among others , sang.

After the end of the World War , it can be proven that the singer lived in Berlin; from 1918 he began to work for the new medium of film. Music contributions to five silent films can be proven.

Works

Operettas

  • The girl with money: Original farce with singing by Engelbert Karl. Berlin: Bloch 1887
  • The Tsarina's Singspiel: Operetta in three acts by Max Trausil and Ed. Jacobson. Leipzig: CA Koch's Verlag 1888; First performed on February 25, 1891 in the Prague State Theater
  • The Bonbonnière: Operetta in 1 act by Josef Siegmund a. Louis font . Vienna: Bárd & Brother, 1905
  • "The Wandering Bird": Comedy with song and dance in three acts by Alexander Siegmund Pordes . Berlin: Bermühler [approx. 1907]
  • Der Pfiffikus: Operetta in 3 acts by Josef Siegmund a. Fritz Blank. Budapest; Leipzig [inter alia]: Bard, 1908; First performed on February 3, 1906 in the Gärtnerplatztheater , Munich

Film music

Bertrand Sänger wrote “Film-Gesänge” for the lecture in the cinema, which was published by Curt Max Roehr in Berlin . He also put together pieces of music to accompany silent films. Hans Albers played a leading role in several of them . Its producer was Max Nivelli .

  • Happiness, why are you fleeing from me !: "Oed and lonely the days flee" from "The daughter of Bajazzo"
  • The song of Nisames: "The night is full of rose breaths" from "The Curse of Nuri"
  • The song of happiness: "I often said" from "Life Paths"
  • Wanderlied: "Will now wander into the world" from "Der Glücksucher"

additional

  • An adventurer: “Come in! Welcome friend ”. Comic duet f. T. u. Bar. M. Puffs. Singer, Bertrand Eugen, Op. 7. Cologne, PJ Tonger; Mk 3.- (1881)
  • Kiss song from: Cousin Bobby. Operetta in 3 acts by Benno Jacobson and Franz Wagner; Music by Carl Millöcker . Arranged by Bertrand Sänger. Leipzig [u. a.]: Cranz, [approx. 1890]
  • Rübezahl: a fairy tale game in 5 pictures with music and dance. Music v. B. Singer. Text by Karl Skraup . Berlin: Decision, 1893 - 51 pages
  • Hercules. March for piano by Bertrand Eugen singer. Published by Prag: S. Neustadtl's John, [1895]
  • King Zipapek, the noble dwarf. Modern fairy tale operetta in three acts by A. Bernstein-Sawerski and AS Pordes-Milo. Music by B. Singer. Leipzig, G. Richter [© 1909]

Filmography

  • 1918: the old picture
  • 1918: The Curse of Nuri
  • 1918: The luck seeker
  • 1918: life trajectories
  • 1919: The daughter of Bajazzo, also: The old song (Germany 1918/19)

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970
  • Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Decisions d. Film censorship in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart 1911–1920. Munich: Saur 1980
  • Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.): German Stage Yearbook. Theater history year and address book, Berlin: FA Günther & Sohn, 1918, 1920, 1934
  • Lothar Prox: Perspectives on the reprocessing of silent film music, in: Silent film music yesterday and today. Edited by of the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation. Verlag Volker Spiess, Berlin 1979, pp. 9-26
  • Irene Stratenwert with Hermann Simon (Ed.): Pioneers in Celluloid. Jews in the early film world. Henschel, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89487-471-6
  • Claus Tieber: Singing in Viennese cinemas during the silent film era. Lecture given at the symposium on film music research June 14-16, 2012, University of Salzburg. See wordpress.com [22]
  • Michael Wedel: Schizophrenic technique, sensual happiness. Film opera, film operetta, film singing game. In: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. München, Edition Text + Critique 2007. ISBN 978-3883778358 , pp. 69–191
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1956

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Registry office Mainz : birth register . No. 445/1861.
  2. ^ In: Signals for the musical world , Volume 46, Verlag von Bartholf Senff, 1888, p. 678.
  3. ↑ Saenger, Bertrand. In: "Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater. At the same time a biographical auxiliary book in the field of theater and music. Commissions-Verlag Adolph W. Künast, Vienna 1894, p. 660 .
  4. ↑ Personal News. In: New musical press. Magazine for music, theater, art, singers and clubs. Verlag Hans Schneider, 1899, p. 8.
  5. ↑ cf. operons [1]
  6. ↑ Komische Oper Berlin ; in: Gerhard Michael Dienes: Fellner & Helmer . The architects of illusion. Theater construction and stage design in Europe. On the occasion of the “100 Years of Graz Opera” anniversary. Stadtmuseum Graz, 1999, p. 133.
  7. ↑ In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 101, 1905, p. 301.
  8. ↑ Fantastic-comic operetta in a prelude and two sections by Leopold Krenn and Carl Lindau , cf. planet-vienna.com Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.planet-vienna.com
  9. ↑ cf. anno.onb.ac.at [2]
  10. ↑ In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Volume 101, 1905, p. 716.
  11. ↑ cf. furtwangler.net [3] : "He made his conducting debut on October 10, conducting the ballet Tanzbilder and on October 31, Pfitzner's Fest auf Sollhaug, and then ten performances of Rübezahl set to music by Bertrand Sänger."
  12. ↑ cf. Program booklet Neues Operetten-Theater Berlin December 15, 1908. For the 200th performance of THE DOLLAR PRINCESS by Willner / Grünbaum, Leo Fall (music). Insz .: Otto Lang, conductor: Bertrand Saenger. With Julius Sachs, Mizzi Wirth, Albert Paulig, Alfred Walters, Mia Weber, Oskar Braun, Carl Bachmann, Maria Forescu, Poldi Augustin, August Tost, Julius Reichwald. Berlin, self-published / printing: Imberg & Lefson 1908; a photo postcard (Elite Berlin No. 3166/4) showing Oscar Braun and Poldi Augustin in "Die Dollarprinzessin" at [4] , another from the same publisher (No. 3166/5) with Poldi Augustin and Mia Werber at [ 5] (accessed on August 23, 2014)
  13. ^ The German Stage Yearbook, Theater History Year and Address Book, lists singers for the years 1918–1920 as “Kapellmeister, residing in Charlottenburg, Roscherstr. 1"
  14. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [6]
  15. ↑ as Bertrand Eugen singer, cf. worldcat.org [7] , on line at BSB Digitale-sammlungen.de [8]
  16. ↑ Overview of the achievements of the German Bohemia. Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Böhmen, Haase, 1891, p. 139.
  17. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [9]
  18. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [10]
  19. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [11]
  20. ^ Thomas Siedhoff (Red.); Elke Schöninger (collaborator): Actien-Volkstheater - Repertoire of the seasons 1865–1872 / 73. Royal Theater on Gärtnerplatz - Repertoire for the seasons 1873 / 74–1917 / 18. Gärtnerplatztheater - repertoire of the seasons 1918/19–1930/31. Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, p. 183; accessed on February 26, 2017.
  21. ↑ singer, Bertrand Eugen. In: Hugo Riemann : Musik-Lexikon , Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1916 [8. completely revised Ed.], P. 970.
  22. ↑ on the phenomenon of singing in silent film cinema cf. Wedel p. 69 f. and Tieber 2012
  23. ↑ cf. Birett silent film music p. 70
  24. ↑ Where an original composition would have been too expensive, film accompaniment music was often 'compiled' from parts of works by various composers; an example is printed in Prox, Perspektiven, pp. 18-19: the music set-up for "Titanic" by Hansheinrich Dransmann , Berlin.
  25. ↑ born as Menachem-Mendel Lewin, s. a. Max Nivelli , cf. filmportal.de [12] , his production “Der Ritualmord, or: Die Geächteten” from 1919, directed by Joseph Delmont , became famous , cf. Stratenwerth-Simon pp. 134, 234 f. ; unfortunately it must be considered lost.
  26. ↑ cf. court master [13]
  27. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [14]
  28. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [15]
  29. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [16]
  30. ↑ Albert Bernstein-Sawerski born April 3, 1870 b Walldorf. Meiningen; Playwright in Berlin; after 1938 in Paris. See literaturrat.de [17]
  31. ↑ cf. worldcat.org [18] , contains the songs: I am the King Zipapek [19] , they take off your jackets! [20] and Zipapek and Belladine [21]
personal data
SURNAME Singer, Bertrand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Singer, Bertrand Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH after 1925