Emil Roosz

Emil Roósz (born July 31, 1897 in Budapest ; † 1945 there ) was a German-Hungarian violinist and band leader.

Life

Roósz attended the music school in Budapest. From 1927 he led a quartet salon ensemble with which he played chamber music. Since 1928 he performed in Berlin. From 1930 he took over the ten-man “artist band” in the renowned Berlin Hotel Adlon , where Sami Stern and then Marek Weber had made guest appearances with their orchestras before him. Afterwards he was engaged in the Berlin hotels Excelsior, Kaiserhof and Bristol (from 1936) as director of the local chapels.

He made numerous recordings for the record company "Deutsche Crystalate Gesellschaft mbH" in Berlin on their label "Kristall", later "Imperial".

He also took part in entertainment and dance evenings on the Berliner Rundfunk. His concerts were broadcast live from the hotel lobby.

His repertoire was broad and ranged from chamber and salon music to opera and operetta potpourris to elegant dance rhythms and modern hits. His chorus singers included the operetta tenor Kurt Mühlhardt (as "Kurt Hardt"), the jazz pianist and crooner Austin Egen and the "German radio tenor" Erwin Hartung , who was ubiquitous in the 1930s , as well as the Abel Quartet .

During the Second World War , Roósz encountered difficulties with the central placement agency of the Reichsmusikkammer , which threatened him with the dissolution of the ensemble. However, the orchestra was allowed to continue recording records. Emil Roosz was murdered in Budapest in 1945 under circumstances that were not clearly understood. One of the triggers for this fate is said to have been Roósz's career in Germany.

Audio documents

• Salon music:
  • Moosröschen (Rose mousse) character piece (A. Bosc), Emil Roósz and his orchestra. Crystal 1269 (C 2387)
  • Serenade “The Angel Song” (G. Braga), Emil Roósz and his orchestra. Crystal 1269 (C 2393)
  • Spring song by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Emil Roósz and his orchestra. Kristall 1116 (C 6587.2)

• Operetta music:
  • L'auberge du cheval blanc (= In the white horse on Wolfgangsee , marching song) (Benatzky). Cristal 5441 (C 1674)
  • Pour être un jour aimé de toi (= It must be something wonderful, song and tango) (Benatzky). Cristal 5441 (C 1675), both from the revue operetta "Im Weißen Rössel" (Benatzky et al.) Emile Roosz et son orchester. Fabriqué en Allemagne - export plate for France.
  • Potpourri from the operetta "Blume von Hawaii", 1st part. Kristall 3241 (C 1708), 2nd part (Paul Abraham) Kristall 3241 (C 1710). Singing: Kurt Mühlhardt and the Abel Quartet.
  • Tango Marina (Schmidseder-Schwenn) from the operetta "Melodie der Nacht". Emil Roósz and his orchestra. Imperial 17 215 (mx. KC 27 304 ²)
  • What a gypsy plays. Tango (Schmidseder-Schwenn) from the operetta "Melodie der Nacht". Emil Roósz and his orchestra. Imperial 17 215 (mx. KC 27 305) - Berlin, early 1938
• Dance and pop music
  • The best of the best. Schlager-Potpourri (Dostal) I and II. Emil Roósz and his orchestra v. Hotel Adlon, Berlin. Singing: Kurt Mühlhardt u. Abel Quartet. Kristall 3242 (mx. C 1720 & C 1721) - Berlin, early 1932
  • It was never love (blonde Natascha), tango (Markusch, text: Rotter). Emil Roósz and his dance orchestra v. Hotel Adlon, Berlin with singing [Austin Egen]. Imperial No. 50 011 (C 1769.1) - Berlin 1931. 3:10
  • Little seagull flies to Heligoland. Slow Foxtrot (cowler courtship). Emil Roósz and his orchestra. Singing: Eric Helgar. Kristall 3450 (C 6576) - Berlin 1934.
• Re-releases
  • The CD "Tanztee im Adlon", published by Duophon Records (Alfred Wagner Company), a hotel and its bands (1928–1938), which " musically documents the ten years from 1928 to 1938 when the establishment rose to become one of the leading in Europe " , contains three tracks by Emil Roósz (# 16, 17 and 18).
  • The CD "Music from Berlin cafés and dance palaces: original recordings from 1930 to 1943." Program notes in German. Erftstadt: Jube, 2000, contains: Vision. Tango (Jos. Rixner) Emil Roosz and his orchestra

literature

• Calendar “Artists on the radio” for 1931. Rothgiesser & Diesing publishing house, Berlin 1931.
• Marko Paysan: Booklet for the CD box Swinging Ballrom Berlin II . Emarcy Records (Universal) 2001.
• ders .: "... from the spirit of the boulevard". On the physiognomy of urban dance music and entertainment culture in the sound film operetta cinegraph.de .
• Knud Wolffram: Dance floors and amusement palaces: Berlin nightlife in the thirties and forties. From Friedrichstrasse to Berlin W., from Moka Efti to Delphi . 4th, through u. supplementary edition. Edition Hentrich, 1995

Web links

Emil Roósz on youtube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pocket calendar "Artists on the radio" 1931, p. 243, there also a picture of the artist
2. ↑ plate labels, e.g. B. lion-invest.de
3. ↑ "Polyphonic" Label lion-invest.de 1920
4. ↑ Advertisement and photo of the chapel, probably taken in the mirror room of the Hotel Adlon, cf. grammophon-platten.de
5. ↑ Advertising card for the hotel at travelbrochuregraphics.com and picture postcard (advertising card for the “Kristall”) from the Giesbrecht collection, University of Osnabrück, at bildpostkarten.uni-osnabrueck.de . Further evidence: “Emil Roósz's orchestra was the house band of the Berlin Hotel Excelsior at the Anhalterbahnhof. This hotel was the largest in continental Europe in its time. It was not a luxury hotel like the Hotel Adlon, the Kaiserhof or the Hotel Esplanade, it was geared towards business travelers. According to the company, the largest hotel tunnel in the world connected the station hall with the hotel lobby ”. Karl-Heinz Arnold: Burned splendor at the Anhalter Bahnhof . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 25–31 ( luise-berlin.de ).
6. ↑ Marko Paysan: Booklet for the CD box Swinging Ballrom Berlin II , Emarcy Records (Universal) 2001.
7. ↑ Pocket calendar “Artists on the Radio” 1931, p. 243
8. ↑ disk label archive link ( memento of the original from 1 May 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ disk label archive link ( memento of the original February 23, 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ disk label lion-invest.de . His recording of Weill-Brecht's “Alabama Song” from “Fall and Rise of the City of Mahagonny” proves that Roósz also knew how to participate in the very latest musical developments - cf. Figure ki46.tumblr.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Marko Paysan: Booklet for the CD box Swinging Ballrom Berlin II , Emarcy Records (Universal) 2001, p. 29.