Karl Loube

Karl Loube (born January 13, 1907 in Mährisch Kromau , † December 12, 1983 in Klosterneuburg ; actually Karl Holoubek , also Carl or Charles Loubé ) was an Austrian composer , arranger , conductor , theater director and radio entertainment director.

His work includes musical comedies, hits and Viennese songs, music for films and television productions as well as numerous arrangements and potpourris. Well-known artists like Hans Moser or later Peter Alexander sang his I marschier 'mit mein Duli-Dulliöh with great success. His hit Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän is also known .

Life

The son of an organist and owner of a music school began studying piano and organ as well as composition with Leoš Janáček at the Brno Conservatory . He later continued his studies at the Vienna Music Academy , where he was trained on the piano by Emil von Sauer . To finance his studies, he turned to light music and worked as a pianist, arranger and composer in night clubs. Then Loube was Kapellmeister at the Vienna City Theater and the City Theater , and from 1947 also director of the Vienna City Theater. In 1949 he put together the Red-White-Red Dance Orchestra with 40 musicians , which was later called the Great RWR Dance and Entertainment Orchestra and which he conducted from 1952 to 1955. 1952 Loubé was also head of the entertainment department of the station Red-White-Red . After the station was discontinued in 1955, he mainly worked in Germany. The repertoire was broad, so he accompanied Peter Alexander , Evelyn Künneke , Leila Negra and others on recordings, but also played unsung dance and light music pieces, as well as concert arrangements of well-known melodies in elaborate arrangements, around 120 of which were by Karl Grell .

His wife Lucie (born March 28, 1920 - November 17, 2019) was the long-time president of the Vienna Animal Welfare Association .

Works

Operettas and musical comedies

• The Miss with the Suitcase Musical comedy in 3 acts by Franz Paul, song texts by Josef Petrak. (1941)
  Premiere April 4, 1941, Wiener Stadttheater
• Brazilian coffee Musical comedy in 3 acts by Franz Paul and Fritz Eckhardt (1942)
  premiered January 16, 1942, Residenzbühne
• Three blue eyes Musical comedy by Géza von Cziffra (1942)
  premiered September 18, 1942, Wiener Stadttheater
• Without money I would be rich Operetta in 6 pictures by Rudolf Österreicher (1948)
  WP January 9, 1948, Raimundtheater , from it:

The Viennese don't need an 'opera ball waltz song

I can no longer imagine the world without you Song and slow waltz

Whether you are a man Rumba

• Franziska becomes energetic Musical Schwank by R. Schönwiese u. J. Doneis, lyrics by Ernst A. Welisch.
  Premiere June 10, 1943, Wiener Stadttheater, from it:

My heart needs music for everything

Dear darling, you drive me crazy

I loved being your shadow

I know them so well

Film and TV music

• 1955: King Waltz
• 1955: The dairymaid from St. Kathrein ; from it:

Where mountains and clouds greet each other Slow Foxtrot (Text: Hanns Haller)

Just don't be sad Slow Waltz (Text: Hans Haller)

• 1955: a doctor's secret
• 1955: Beware of drugs; from it:

Yes, if it weren't for the wine, Wienerlied (Text: Hans Haller)

• 1956: Holiday at the Wörthersee
• 1956: Hurray - the company has a child
• 1957: August the youngster
• 1957: Farmer's doctor from Bayrischzell
• 1959: Always the girls
• 1959: No man to marry
• 1962: The pastor with the jazz trumpet
• 1971: When Father with Son (TV series)
• 1973: Hello - Hotel Sacher ... porter! (TV series)

Schlager and Viennese songs (selection)

• Oh how nice song and slow Foxtrot (1940; words: Josef Petrak )
• Ah ... this is the new dance from Cuba! Rumba (1931; words: Peter Herz )
• Allah! Allah! Oriental song and Foxtrot (1936; words: Erich Meder )
• As the Lord God in Heaven invented the violins Wienerlied (1950; Text: Hans Werner and Ernst A. Welisch )
• On the way between Don and Odessa Russian Fox Trot (1938; words: Erich Meder)
• Apfelkern Lied and Tango (1950; words: Josef Kaderka )
• You have to be careful with the Liab and the wine Wienerlied (1950; words: Ernst A. Welisch)
• At the "Villa Maria" song and tango (1938; words: Erich Meder)
• There's a dance at Kater Murr today! Foxtrot Intermezzo (1939; words: Ernst A. Welisch)
• Great happiness is only a moment! Lied and Tango (1936; words: Alfred Steinberg-Frank )
• That is only in the stars song and tango (1952; words: Josef Hochmuth and Hans Werner)
• Heaven can wait until i aufikumm Wienerlied (1940; words: Josef Petrak and Ernst A. Welisch)
• The father wine (1971; words: Fritz Eckhardt )
• The giant snake Grotesk-Foxtrot (1937; Text: Erich Meder)
• Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän Lied und Tango (1936, text: Erich Meder)
• Dorothea! Lied und Foxtrot (1930; words: Peter Herz)
• You are the most beautiful woman ... Slow-Fox (1938; words: Erich Meder)
• Du g'schamiger Xandl Foxtrot (1951; words: Erich Meder)
• A cuckoo and a pendulum clock too: cuckoo clock polka (1951; words: Fritz Eckhardt)
• A tender reminder Lied and Slowfox (1937; Text: Hanns Schachner )
• Uncle Ivan snores ... Fox (1939; words: Erich Meder)
• Today is the court ball with the queen bee Foxintermezzo (1936; words: Erich Meder)
• I marschier 'mit mein Duli-Dulliöh (1940; Text: Josef Hochmuth and Hans Werner)
• I red in my sleep Wienerlied and Couplet (1940; words: Josef Petrak and Ernst A. Welisch)
• I'm just a funny farmhouse waltz (1955; Text: Hans Haller )
• I'm just a clown! Lied and Slowfox (1930; words: Peter Herz)
• I telegraphed you today! Foxtrot (1939; words. Erich Meder)
• I stop with the alcohol every now and then a Karambol Wienerlied (1940; words: Josef Petrak and Ernst A. Welisch)
• I can find my keyhole net (1939; Text: Josef Petrak and Ernst A. Welisch)
• I count on my buttons ... Lied and Foxtrot (1937; words: Erich Meder)
• My Hawaiian song and Foxtrot lie in the blue sea (1947; words: Josef Hochmuth)
• In the blue night song and slow fox (1933; text: Hanns Wilstatt and Wilhelm Sterk )
• Krach-Polka Bohemian Polka (1953: Text: Hans Werner)
• Can you kiss chinese? Chinese song and Foxtrot (1937; text: Erich Meder)
• Kukuschka Lied and Foxtrot (1935; text by the composer based on Jonel Bibescu)
• Maminka Polka (1951; Text: Fritz Eckhardt and Peter Christian)
• My heart needs everything - Musik Wienerlied (1963; words: Ernst A. Welisch and Hans Werner)
• My darling you have something like that . Song and Foxtrot. (1936; Text: Erich Meder)
• My sweet girl from Napajedl also: Zwetschkenknödl- Fox (1937; Text: Erich Meder)
• Nanu Foxtrot (1940; words: Josef Petrak)
• Orchids only! Lied und Foxtrot (1930; words: Peter Herz)
• O talk in sleep ... Wienerlied and Couplet (1940; words: Josef Petrak and Ernst A. Welisch)
• Oh, Mary-Lou! (Words: Franz Funk)
• Oh, what a shame ... Samba Serenade (1949; words: Ernst A. Welisch)
• Uncle Iwan Foxtrot (1939; Text: Erich Meder)
• Schatzerl (1950; Text: Josef Petrak)
• Write me a postcard! Mood Waltz (1949; words: Erich Meder)
• You're getting younger and younger, little woman! Slow Foxtrot (1938; words: Josef Petrak)
• Such a lederhosen! Funny Fox Trot (1936; Text: Erich Meder)
• So lovely, so beautiful! Lied and Tango (1936; words: Alfred Steinberg-Frank)
• Trau 'di, trau' di nur net ham zum Fraudi Wienerlied (1940; words: Josef Hochmuth and Hans Werner)
• Dream with me of Hawaii Lied and Foxtrot (1938; words: Erich Meder)
• In love with his Viennese song (1971; words: Fritz Eckhardt)
• Veselý-Polka (1971; words: Fritz Eckhardt and AK Wottitz)
• Why do you want to go? Lied and Tango (1937; words: Hanns Schachner)
• Do you know what, dear Franz ?! Song and Foxtrot (1933; Text: Beda )
• When man is in the mood Schunkelwalzer (1938: Words: Erich Meder)
• When the sun with the moon a klanes Gspusi 'd Vienna Liedcouplet (Text: Josef Petrak)
• If you and I were two mice too Mäuschen-Polka Polka (1949; words: Erich Meder)

Other compositions

• I don't know swing polka (1952)

and numerous arrangements and potpourris

literature

• Anton Bauer: Operas and Operettas in Vienna . Verlag Böhlau, Vienna 1955.
• Hans Hauenstein : Chronicle of the Wienerlied . Jasomirgott-Verlag, Klosterneuburg 1976.
• Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien, Volume 4. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, p. 98, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 .
• Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon, Volume 3. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, p. 1315, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Web links

• Media from and about Karl Loube in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Loube in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary for Lucie Loube. In memory of the great animal lover Lucie Loubé.