The song of the dancing fool

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The song from the dancing gate is a song that the Russian-Jewish cinema bandmaster and composer Alexander Schirmann published in 1915 by CMRoehr. It could be accompanied by a piano or a harp. Danish actor Valdemar Psilander wrote the text for it .

It was used as the theme song in the two versions of the silent film drama Klovnen , which the Danish director AW Sandberg realized for Nordisk Film Kompagni : 1917, where he also wrote the screenplay with Laurids Skands, with Valdemar Psilander in the title role, and in 1926 with Poul Knudsen as co-author and with Gösta Ekman instead of the now deceased Psilander as clown Joe Higgins.

Both versions, the one from 1917 as well as the one from 1926, came to cinemas in Germany and Austria under the title “The dancing gate”.

German text

(1)
See him, the fool! The bell rings.
See him swinging his love
If a king thinks himself, he stands out:
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
(2)
Love broke loyalty and vows to you.
Say, Bajazzo, what are you crying for?
Look up out of sorrow and tears:
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
(3)
Is your heart sore too to die
Smile, smile with your mouth crying.
You whom fate fooled:
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
(4)
In the middle of all the colorful trinkets
Grips death's icy hand,
Lures you in pale shadow chorus:
Dance, dance, you poor fool!
Dance, dance, you poor fool!

Audio documents

Two gramophone records with the title song were released in Germany in May and August 1918 for the performance of the first version of “Der tanzende Tor”.

  • Homokord 15 776 (M 5 K, A 9 5 18) The song of the dancing gate, from the movie "The dancing gate" (A. Schirmann). Singing, with orchestra.
  • Beka 30 144 (mx. 30 144) "The dancing gate" - song (Alexander Schirmann). Emil Severin , baritone with orchestra, recorded on August 30, 1918

The company Anker Record published an instrumental version:

  • Anker Record No. 906 (mat.?): “Der tanzende Tor”, Entr'Act and song by A. Schirmann. Anker string orchestra.

With the remake of "Der tanzende Tor" in 1926 the title hit was reissued. It appeared in Germany in the spring of 1927 on two gramophone records that were now electrically recorded:

  • VOX 3608 E (mx. 1222 BB) The song of the dancing gate, from the movie "The dancing gate" (A. Schirmann). Max Kuttner , tenor, with orchestra accompaniment. Up. in January 1927
  • Gramophone 20 801 (mx. 117 bh) The song about dancing goals, from the movie "The dancing goal" (A. Schirmann). Hans Schwarz, tenor, with the Paul Godwin Ensemble. Mech.copyr. 1927.

Web links

The dancing gate (1917):

The dancing gate (1926):

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970.
  • Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film . Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Munich, Kindler, 1956, 469 p., Here p. 395.
  • Oskar Kalbus: On becoming German film art. Part 1: The silent film . From Dr. Oskar Kalbus. Hamburg, Cigaretten Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld 1935. Here: pp. 21–23. Part 2: The sound film , p. 5.
  • Shari Kizirian: The Golden Clown , 1926. Essay at: San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2014, on line at silentfilm.org
  • Denis Peters: Der tanzende Tor (Klovnen) , January 28, 2012, at: Silent Film Symposium Heidelberg, on line at wordpress.com
  • Alexander Schirmann: Das Lied vom Tanzenden Toren, with piano or harp accompaniment , Berlin, CM Roehr, around 1917, paperback, 3 pages, very large book format (approx. A3)
  • Stengel / Gerigk = 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, Theophil Stengel , Herbert Gerigk (edit.), (= Publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for the investigation of the Jewish question, vol. 2), Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941 (antisemit . Publ.)
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre . München, Edition Text + Critique 2007. ISBN 978-3-88377-835-8 . Here p. 106.
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors . Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag 1956
  • Christian Zwarg: on line discographies at phonomuseum.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the orchestra edition from 1921 and on the label of the gramophone record 20 801 the name “Entr'acte u. Song ”
  2. ↑ Main name: Schirmann, Alexander. Birth name: Schermann, Sus. Additional names: Shirman, Al, geb. on February 13, 1876 in Zhitomir / Schytomyr, Russia / today: Ukraine, died on December 3, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland. Conductor, composer. See LexM Hamburg and Stengel-Gerigk sp. 241
  3. ↑ cf. Birett p. 72 and Zglinicki p. 290; Hoffmeister indicates an edition for orchestra in his musical-literary monthly report 1921 on p. 40: Schirmann, Alexander: Entr'acte u. Song a. the dancing gate f. Orch., 8 °. Berlin, Roehr M 13.50 n.
  4. ↑ cf. The song of the dancing gate at The German Early Cinema DatabaseTemplate: GECD title / maintenance / ID is missing in Wikidata . Fig. Of the sheet music title (with a drawing by the graphic artist Otto Thaler, depicting Psilander as Bajazzo with a lute) in the image section in Zglinicki and imagesmusicales.be  ; according to the dedication on the title page, the song is "dedicated to Mr. General Director Oliver in admiration"
  5. ↑ The song was presumably performed as a vocal interlude or prologue before the film by a singer in the cinema, cf. Kalbus, Vol. 2, The sound film, p. 5 “and at the“ Tanzenden Tor ”a tenor sang the hit behind the screen.”, Wedel p. 106, note 169
  6. ↑ cf. to him Stephan Michael Schröder at danlitstummfilm
  7. ↑ Psilander died on March 6, 1917 under unknown circumstances, cf. Zglinicki pp. 464-465
  8. ↑ omitted in the homocord recording from 1918
  9. ↑ up. on Dec. 5, 1916, pressed on May 9, 1918, after “On the dating of Homocord records” at grammophon-platten.de
  10. ↑ cf. Zwarg  : Beka Matrix Numbers 30000 - 30172, p. 20
  11. ↑ OCLC number: 477350457, cf. worldcat.org  ; on anchor record cf. grammophon-platten.de
  12. ↑ cf. Zwarg  : VOX Catalog Numbers - 3000 to 3999: Male Solo Voices, p. 161