Edmund Kötscher

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"Connie" Edmund Kötscher (born April 17, 1909 in Berlin ; † January 15, 1990 there ) was a German entertainment musician , composer and band leader .

Live and act

Kötscher studied music at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar with Max Strub and Gustav Kulenkampff . He then worked as a conductor with various orchestras before leading his own dance orchestra and was concertmaster at the Berlin Admiralspalast from 1933/34 , where he had an obligation as Kapellmeister. After the Erhard Bauschke Orchestra was often on tours or otherwise contractually bound, Kötscher was commissioned to set up an orchestra for the German short-wave transmitter. From 1939 he played with his dance orchestra (a studio band made up of musicians from the Admiralspalast, to which the pianist Helmuth Wernicke also belonged) from 1939 a series of records for Imperial and Electrola such as “Großstadtmelodie” (Imperial 17269, with the Schuricke trio ), “ Fidele Geisterstunde ”and“ Cabaret der Noten ”(1939),“ The time of young love is beautiful ”,“ Sing mit mir ”(1942), (both with Herta Mayen ) and“ I tell you good morning ”(around 1942 / 43, with Liselotte Malkowsky , Electrola 7310). Kötscher wrote around 2000 songs, mostly light music and hits like "Evenings in the small bar", "Liechensteiner Polka", "Amsterdamer Polka", "When the lights shine again" (recorded by Arne Hülphers ), but also numbers influenced by swing like "Step Boys". He also composed works for accordion, big band and orchestra; he also wrote an arrangement of Mozart's Violin Concerto in G major .

literature

  • Armin Suppan , Wolfgang Suppan : The brass music lexicon. Composers - Authors - Works - Literature . Edited in conjunction with the Styrian Brass Music Association, 5th edition, HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 .
  • Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music - Composers and Their Music , Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7 .
  • Edmund Kötscher , in: Die Blasmusik - Official Organ of the Federation of German Brass Music Associations eV, Freiburg im Breisgau, June 1990, pp. 175, ISSN  0344-8231
  • Andreas Masel: The Great Upper and Lower Bavarian Brass Music Book; with contributions by Stephan Ametsbichler, Stefan Hirsch and Heinz Wohlmuth; Roll of honor of the Upper and Lower Bavarian brass bands , published by the Musikbund von Ober- und Niederbayern, Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1989, 543 p.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz in Germany , ed. by Wolfram Knauer , Jazz Institute Darmstadt . Cloud publishing company Mbh, 1996, p. 30
  2. ↑ Berlin March 1939 - KC 27 563 - Imperial 17 251
  3. ↑ Imperial 17 245 / KC 27539
  4. ↑ Electrola, EG 7291 / ORA 5851
  5. ↑ Fiesta "is a version of the Liechtenstein Polka , edited by Shane MacGowan and Jem Finer , and appeared on The Pogues' album If I Should Fall from Grace with God from 1988.
  6. ↑ Music: Edmund Kötscher; Text: Charles Alson; from the film "People Without Gravity"; Arne Hülphers with orchestra and Otto Gerd Fischer (vocals); Recording: Grammophon 47563 / Polydor
  7. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 12, 2016)
  8. ^ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Violin Concerto in G major. Here: Cadenzas for the 1st and 2nd movements by Edmund Kötscher. Original manuscript. The Braune Musikverlag. Without a place, 1940
personal data
SURNAME Kötscher, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1990
Place of death Berlin