Egon Neumann

Egon Neumann (born July 21, 1894 in Mödling , Austria-Hungary , † 1948 in Mexico City , suicide ) was an Austrian composer and conductor .

Life

Neumann, whose father was a lawyer , studied musicology at the University of Vienna from 1913 under Guido Adler (Dr. phil. 1919), then worked in 1920 as Kapellmeister in Mährisch Ostrau , in 1921 at the New Operettenhaus Berlin, in 1922 at the Central Theater Berlin and was the composer of the Entertainment industry . From 1920-1928 at the Bürgertheater as Kapellmeister, where he conducted the world premiere of his operetta Donauweibchen . Later he lived in Berlin , 1932–1934 again in Vienna , then in Paris . Worked on New Year's Eve 1939/1940 in the revue Meslay laughs with, organized by Karl Farkas . He fled to Mexico via France in 1938 . The diplomat Gilberto Bosques helped him. In Mexico he worked as a pianist and composer in the Heinrich Heine Klub until its dissolution in 1946 and staged a revue together with Hugo Wiener and Cissy Kraner .

Like Marcel Rubin , he was an active member of the ARAM (Acción Republikana Austriaca de Méxiko) , an independent movement of Austrians abroad .

literature

• Monika Kornberger: Neumann, Egon. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
• Neumann, Egon , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , pp. 699f.