The Old Song (1927)

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The old song is a Viennese song published in 1927 . The music was written by Hilde Loewe-Flatter , the text is by Fritz Löhner-Beda .

Origin and Distribution

Hilde Loewe-Flatter was a pianist and gave concerts and chanson evenings with the castle actor Raoul Aslan . Aslan encouraged her to compose and publish her works. She then dedicated her first published composition to him, " Das Alte Lied" . It was published in 1927 by Bohème Verlag under the pseudonym Henry Love.

The song became a world-famous evergreen. Among the performers were Richard Tauber , who often sang it as an encore and used it in his first sound film I never believe in a woman again . Rudolf Schock sang it in his film The Happy Wanderer . Other versions appeared by Marlene Dietrich , Freddy Quinn and others.

For Carol Reed's famous film classic The Third Man , Anton Karas edited the song for the zither without mentioning the name Henry Love.

literature

  • Britta Eckert: The old song. The German Exile Archive 1933–1945 receives the estate of Hilde Loewe-Flatter / Henry Love , in: Dialog mit Bibliotheken, H. 2 2006: S. 32–36
  • Evelin Förster: The woman in the dark: authors and composers of cabaret and entertainment from 1901–1935 . Berlin: Edition Braus 2013, ISBN 978-3-86228-057-5
  • Jutta Raab Hansen: Nazi persecuted musicians in England. Traces of German and Austrian refugees in British music culture . Hamburg: von Bockel 1996, ISBN 978-3-928770-69-9