Bruno Uher

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Bruno Uher (born March 12, 1912 in Vienna ; † October 31, 1976 in Vienna ) was an Austrian musician, conductor , composer and arranger .

Bruno Uher (right) as a composer at the age of 14 (1926)

Life

Bruno Uher appeared in public as a composer at the age of 14. When he was 17, he was given the task of arranging the jazz for the Vienna premiere of Fred Raymond's musical comedy The Virgin of Avallon . At 18 he composed the soundtrack for the first Austrian speech and sound film, Stormy Night (director: Kurt Blachy ). The songs in it, Tell me, you love me and my dearest is a sailor , were played on radio broadcasts. In 1931 Uher arranged international jazz numbers for Charly Gaudriot's orchestra . In 1934 he composed with Karl Inwald (1902–?) The music for the revue We send love by Fritz Grünbaum and Artur Kaps .

Uher, trained in classical music, became known as a composer of film, theater and hit music, especially after the Second World War . He had his first success in 1936/37 with the Viennese song I hired a servant for Grinzing . Over the years this song has been sung by many interpreters, including Hermann Leopoldi , Peter Igelhoff , Hans Moser , Peter Alexander and Wolfgang Ambros .

In December 1942 von Uher was reported as a private radio operator .

In 1943 Uher's stage arrangements and compositions were performed at the Wiener Stadttheater ( waltz rooms ) and at the Löwinger stage ( The Flour Baroness by Rolf Gordon).

From 1946 onwards, Uher was the resident composer of the Vienna Art Theater, which opened in the Fürstenhof (Vienna-Leopoldstadt, Praterstrasse 25) in 1945 and closed in 1951 .

In the 1950s and 1960s, Uher was director of his own dance orchestra, with whom he recorded Ralph Benatzky's music for the feature film Verklungenes Wien (director: Ernst Marischka ) in 1951 and played at the Vienna Opera Ball in 1956 . In 1950 Uher developed a new musical version of Franz von Suppès' operetta Fatinitza for the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich , which represents a profound intervention in the style of the original, with some more modern dance rhythms.

In 1962 he wrote the music and the lyrics for the Austrian contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest . The song was sung by Eleonore Schwarz . He wrote the music for many films of the 1950s and 1960s. These include Viennese stories , The Chaste Adam and Scandal in Ischl .

Bruno Uher, who suffered from circulatory and cardiac failure on October 31, 1976, was buried on November 15, 1976 in the Vienna Central Cemetery (grave 34F / 13/18), his wife, Emilie Uher (1918–2009), rests at his side. a sister of Paul Löwinger .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The foxtrot of two fourteen year olds. In:  Die Bühne , year 1926, No. 84/1926, p. 39. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bue.
  2. ↑ Theater, Art and Music. (...) In the comedy takes place Friday (...). In:  Reichspost , No. 222/1929 (XXXVI. Volume), August 13, 1929, p. 7, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  3. ↑ At the cradle of Austrian sound films. Visit to the Schönbrunn studio. In:  Freedom! , No. 901/1930 (Volume IV), July 26, 1930, p. 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dfr.
  4. ↑ Performers of I hired a servant for Grinzing .
  5. ↑ a b The musical call to Barbara. Festive preparations for the Löwingern / How title came about. In:  Wiener Kronen-Zeitung , No. 15.4257 / 1942 (XLIII. Volume), December 20, 1942, p. 7. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / short.
  6. ↑ Small art mirror. Premiere at the Vienna Art Theater. Celestine. In:  Weltpresse. Independent news and voices from all over the world , No. 57/1946 (2nd year), March 8, 1946, p. 4, column 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dwp.
  7. ^ The Uher Dance Orchestra at the Vienna Opera Ball in 1956
  8. ^ Franz von Suppè (among others): Fatinitza. Operetta in 3 acts based on Zell and Genée by Eduard Rogati . Music printing. Weinberger, Vienna (among others) 1950, OBV .
  9. ↑ Bruno Uher died . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 3, 1976, p. 10 , column 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Uher, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1976
Place of death Vienna