Ferdinand Leopoldi

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Ferdinand Leopoldi , originally: Ferdinand Israel Kohn (born August 20, 1886 in Vienna ; † December 20, 1944 there ) was an Austrian pianist, pop composer and cabaret manager.

Life

Ferdinand was the eldest son of the musician Leopold Kohn (the family name was officially changed to Leopoldi in 1911). He taught him and his brother Hermann to play the piano. He also tried to get engagements for the two; Ferdinand performed as a pianist at the age of six. Like his brother, he spent the First World War with the German champions . Even afterwards, both of them often performed together at the Ronacher establishment and other entertainment venues and bars. During this time Leopoldi's first hits were written. In 1918 he was one of the founders of the International Artist Organization.

As a solo pianist in Viennese cafés / bars, Ferdinand was advertised as Ferdinand Leopoldi , his brother Hermann as Leopoldi .

Hermann and Ferdinand Leopoldi opened in 1922 together with the conférencier Fritz Wiesenthal († December 31, 1936 in a sanatorium in Mauer near Vienna ; age: 53/56) the cabaret "Leopoldi-Wiesenthal", "LW" for short, in Rothgasse 5 im first Viennese district. The restaurant soon became known far beyond the country's borders. In addition to Leopoldi-Wiesenthal, Charlotte Waldow , Franzi Ressel , Armin Berg , Hans Moser , Szöke Szakall , Max Hansen , Fritz Grünbaum , Karl Valentin or Raoul Aslan and Otto Tressler performed more or less regularly . In 1925, however, they had to close the restaurant for financial reasons; none of the operators had ever learned to trade. Then she made guest appearances in Berlin , in Switzerland and undertook tours.

Towards the end of the 1920s, the Leopoldi brothers gradually went their separate ways. Hermann had more and more solo appearances, Ferdinand Leopoldi took part in the 1926 film Die Pratermizzi and was mainly active as a bar pianist , before he had numerous appearances with Robert Rakowianu (1886–1938) and Grete von Király on the radio in the 1930s.

After the "Anschluss" of Austria , his brother Hermann was deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 and was able to emigrate to the USA in 1939. Ferdinand Leopoldi, who was married to an “ Aryan ”, stayed in Vienna and lived in hiding in an apartment on Bellariastraße in Vienna during the Nazi period . He was discovered there in 1943 and taken for interrogation by the Gestapo, as a result of which he died in the Rothschild Hospital .

Works

  • The girl is not without . Words from Wilhelm Sterk . Vienna 1920.
  • Op. 33. Cyrano. Valse macabre. Piano . Wiener Boheme-Verlag, Vienna 1920, OBV .
  • Always just you! . Slow Fox. Words from Peter Herz . Music together with Ferry Kowarik. Figaro-Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 1927, OBV .
  • Rax March . Music together with Robert Rakowianu.
  • Ronald Leopoldi (Ed.): Leopoldiana. Collected works by Hermann Leopoldi and eleven songs by Ferdinand Leopoldi . Doblinger, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902667-23-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the entry in Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4. Other authors give 1921 as the year of the name change.
  2. ↑ (...) Café Eduard Sacher (...) Herrenhof-Bar (...). In:  Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung , 6 Uhr-Blatt , No. 12156/1918, October 26, 1918, p. 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / waz.
  3. ↑ Daily Chronicle. (...) The comedian Fritz Wiesenthal died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 25973 F / 1937, January 1, 1937, p. 8, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp;
    Comedian Fritz Wiesenthal has died. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , No. 15488/1937 (XLV. Volume), January 1, 1937, p. 10, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj;
    Death of a famous humorist. In:  Das Kleine Blatt , No. 2/1937 (11th year), January 2, 1937, p. 8, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkb.
  4. ↑ Leopoldi-Wiesenthal. In:  Die Bühne , born 1924, issue 1/1924, p. 25, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bue.
  5. ↑ Vienna to 1945. Brettl culture with old and new stars . In: literaturtv.at , accessed on July 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ The sheet music title designed by Willy Herzig, Das Mädel ist not without .
personal data
SURNAME Leopoldi, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohn, Ferdinand Israel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist, composer and cabaret manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1944
Place of death Vienna