Dol Dauber

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Adolf "Dol" Dauber (born July 27, 1894 in Wiznitz near Chernivtsi / Bukowina , † September 15, 1950 in Prague ) was a violinist , conductor and composer .

Life

In the 1920s, Adolf Dauber took on the stage name Dol Dauber and founded the "Jazz Symphony and Dance Orchestra" in Vienna in 1926 , which soon became one of the best in the city and until 1932 numerous pieces, some of which Dauber himself composed, for the British Gramophone Company recorded and published. The best known of his compositions is the hit Leila with a text by Fritz Löhner-Beda .

In 1933 he moved with his musicians to Prague, where he played concerts and made other recordings, among others with RA Dvorsky . During the German occupation of Prague and the Second World War , he and his wife were able to evade deportation themselves , but had to experience that their son, the cellist and composer Robert Dauber , was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943 . While visiting Prague, Hitler insisted that Dauber play in his presence. Dauber's reply that he would only gamble if his son was released was rejected. After the war, Dauber fell into depression over the death of his son in the Dachau concentration camp and died in Prague in 1950.

Compositions

  • Leila , Tango hit from 1925/28 with text by Fritz Löhner-Beda

Recordings

Sources and web links

personal data
SURNAME Dauber, Dol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dauber, Adolf (real name); Dauber, Dolfi; Dauber, Doli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist, composer and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiznitz
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1950
Place of death Prague