Serious track

Ernst Track (born January 20, 1911 in Vienna ; † April 17, 1987 there ) was a cabaret artist and composer .

Life

The trained businessman received private lessons in piano , accordion , organ , guitar and harmony . Musically gifted, he began his career in 1930 as a piano accompanist for amateur performances, but soon became self-employed as a piano humorist and conférencier , mostly writing his chansons and couplets himself. In the 1950s, it became popular with the radio series "We invite you". He earned merit by maintaining the Wienerlied and composed over 400 songs himself. Silver Medal of the Republic of Austria (1970); Silver Mark of Merit (1971); Gold Medal of Honor of the Republic of Austria (1980). Serious track way.

He found his final resting place in the Vienna Central Cemetery (16E-11-24)

literature

• Siegfried Lang: Almanac of the entertainment composers of the 20th century. Vienna: Austrian Association of Composers 1974
• Hans Hauenstein: Chronicle of the Wienerlied. Klosterneuburg: Jasomirgott-Verlag 1976, p. 262
• Neue Arbeiterzeitung, April 25, 1987
• Town hall correspondence. Vienna: Press and Information Service, January 14, 1981, February 14, 1986
• Alexander Rausch : The Ernst Track family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .