Once you say goodbye

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Once you say good-bye , the referee of a slow waltz song begins that Willy Schmidt-Gentner composed for the silent love melodrama “ The wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna ” by director Hanns Schwarz . Fritz Rotter wrote the words . The film, for which Schmidt-Gentner also wrote the illustrative music, premiered on April 15, 1929 in Berlin's Ufa-Palast am Zoo .

The song was published by Bosworth & Co. in Leipzig in 1929.

Ej [d. i. Ernst Jäger] discussed this - his rather pessimistic content as well as the Russian milieu of the film accordingly - in melancholy minor keys held piece of music in the film courier No 124 of 25 May 1929th.

The wistful film song was also a success outside of the cinema and was sung on gramophone record by well-known interpreters of the time, including Austin Egen , Richard Tauber and Franz Völker . It was played by showmen on festival meadows and sung by post-war stars like Peter Alexander . It has recently been cited in the literature.

song lyrics

  • Preface:

When two hearts get along sometimes

and pass with happiness

yes that is beautiful.

One thing in every love only bothers me

and that is the oath of loyalty.

Oaths destroy love.

Nobody secretly believes in them.

So never swear to me: you will stay with me.

I don't ask

because I tell you:

  • Refrain:

Once you say “goodbye”,

If you still love each other like that.

Once you say “goodbye”,

because there is no fidelity.

Do not swear to me: you will be mine forever.

No love can be forever.

Once you say “goodbye”,

If you still love each other like that.


Way: Willy Schmidt-Gentner. Words: Fritz Rotter.

Sound documents (examples)

  • Gramophon 22 644 / B 42 943 (mx. 2 BT-VI) Once you say “Adieu” from the film "The wonderful lie of Nina Petrowna", music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner, text by Fritz Rotter. Franz Völker , Frankfurt Opera House, with orchestral accompaniment. Berlin, June 1929
  • Electrola EG 1359 / 8-42224 (Matr. BN 576-I) Once you say goodbye! (W. Schmidt-Gentner) Austin Egen - at the piano: Arthur Young. Baritone in German with piano
  • Odeon O-2888 b (Be 8332) One day you say “Adieu”. Waltz (Schmidt-Gentner, text by Fritz Rotter) Dajos Béla dance orchestra with vocals.
  • Odeon O-4929 (Be 8341-1) One day you say “Adieu”. Waltz (Schmidt-Gentner, text by Fritz Rotter) Chamber singer C. Richard Tauber . Accompaniment: Dajos Béla artist orchestra, open. June 24, 1929
  • Derby (blue) G-5596 A (mx. 19 RN II) Once you say “goodbye”. Waltz from the film "The wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna" (Schmidt-Gentner - Rotter). Karkoff Orchestra. Mechan. Copt. 1929 (20 cm - narrow cut plate)
  • Tri-Ergon TE 5890 (Matr. 02862) Once you say goodbye: Waltz from the sound film "The wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna" (W. Schmidt-Gentner - Fr. Rotter) Géza Komor dance orchestra , with refraing singing: Wilhelm Gombert
  • Homocord 4-3303 (Matr. H-62113-2) One time you say "Adieu". Waltz (W. Schmidt-Gentner - F. Rotter) Fred Bird Rhythmicans.
  • Beka B. 6773 (Matr. 37 562) Once you say "Adieu": Waltz (W. Schmidt-Gentner - Text: Fritz Rotter) Dobbri saxophone orchestra with vocals

Illustrations

  • Photo of the composer
  • UFA movie poster
  • Note title of the Norwegian edition as "Nina Petrovna Valsen" (Norsk tekst H. Herberth)
  • Label Grammophon 22 644 / B 42 943 (mx. 2 BT-VI)
  • Label Odeon O-4929 a (Be 8341-1)
  • Derby label (blue) G-5596 A (mx. 19 RN II)

literature

  • Aitam Bar-Sagi: The Film Music Museum , Silent Films' Songs on 78RPM Records . Copyright 2013.
  • Kurt Bartsch: Wadzeck . Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1980, ISBN 3-499-25141-8 . (Excerpt from it in: Dietmar Goltschnigg (Ed.): Georg Büchner und die Moderne. Texts, analyzes, commentary. Volume 3. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-503-06108-8 , pp. 208–209)
  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. A collection of materials. Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation, Berlin 1970.
  • Gero Gandert: 1929 - The film of the Weimar Republic. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1993, ISBN 3-11-085261-6 .
  • Lutz Nitsche: Narrative method in Alexander Kluge's montage film: Using the example of "The Power of Emotions". Verlag diplom.de, 1997, ISBN 3-8324-0022-2 .
  • Martin Schütz: The Brockum Grossmarkt . Books on Demand, 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1816-8 .
  • Wolfgang Schreyer, Ernst Franta: The second man. Review of life and writing. EDITION digital publisher, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86394-839-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Gandert 1929, p. 731 to no.214
  2. ↑ cf. Birett p. 117 and 147, IMDb , filmportal.de and Murnaustiftung ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.murnau-stiftung.de
  3. ↑ Schmidt Gentner Willy: Once you say goodbye. Instrumentation: voice piano (GES KLAV); Edition: SINGLE ISSUE, 2 sheets; 4 °; Publisher: Bosworth, Item number: BOE 8825 - cf. Musikalienhandel.de
  4. ↑ cf. Gandert 1929, p. 740.
  5. ↑ so Nitsche p. 60.
  6. ↑ Aitam Bar-Sagi, The Film Music Museum 2013, provides a detailed list.
  7. ↑ cf. Schütz: Brockum wholesale market. P. 38.
  8. ↑ on the LP Piccolo Party (studio album, Polydor 1963), cf. discographien.de
  9. ↑ z. B. in Wolfgang Schreyer: The second man: review of life and writing. P. 139 and in Kurt Bartsch : Wadzeck. 1980, p. 208; Kurt Tucholsky already used it in his satirical text “The mood singer”, which he assembled from verse and refrain passages of contemporary hits, cf. Kurt Tucholsky: The babble of voices. Complete edition. Jazzybee Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8496-3790-3 .