Frank Fox

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Frank Fox in the Vienna studio of the station Rot-Weiß-Rot (1948)

Frank Fox , born as Frank Fux or Frank Fuchs , (born July 25, 1902 in Bistritz am Hostein , Moravia , Austria-Hungary ; † November 27, 1965 in Munich ) was an Austrian conductor and film composer .

Life

Frank Fox studied from 1919 to 1921 at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Joseph Marx , Ferdinand Löwe and Franz Schmidt . He then worked internationally as a conductor and founded a dance orchestra in Vienna, with which he performed in the Viennese Café am Graben and at the Scala Theater. With his “Florida” band he played in Vienna, Karlsbad and Zurich . From 1928 he worked as Kapellmeister at the Deutsches Volkstheater Vienna .

When In der Theateragentur (1930), the first Austrian sound film, was released, he was responsible for the composition - based on a text by Peter Herz . He became music director of the Tobis Sascha film industry and from now on worked primarily as a film composer . After the annexation of Austria , Fox went to Berlin and worked there, Germanized to Frank Fux , as Kapellmeister at the Metropol-Theater . In addition, he remained active as a film composer until just before the end of the war in 1945. In 1946, Fox also wrote the composition for the first Austrian post-war feature film The Far Way

After 1945 he worked with Heinz Sandauer for radio and for the Simpl cabaret . He also composed operettas as well as popular and light music and Viennese songs. When the Federal Republic of Germany was founded, Frank Fox settled in Munich. He has conducted numerous records, including operetta cross-cuts and recitals, for Electrola and Eurodisc .

His grave can be found in the Munich forest cemetery , old part.

Works

Operetta music (selection):

  • Premiere in the Metropol , 1946.
  • Broadway , 1946.

Pop music (selection):

  • Virtuoso (Foxtrot ad Tonfilm Aufruhr im Damenstift , D 1941, directed by FDAndam)
  • You know what? (Tango ad Tonfilm Aufruhr im Damenstift , text: Aldo von Pinelli )
  • My heart beats bum-bum (song from sound film So ein Früchtchen , D 1942, director: Alfred Stöger )

Viennese songs (selection):

  • When the Viennese speak English
  • Vienna was once an imperial city

Filmography

Web links

  • Media from and about Frank Fox in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Frank Fox at filmportal.de
  • Frank Fox at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Program for 'I think I'm not quite normal' (PDF; 799 kB)
  • Audio documents
    • Video on YouTube : I asked my heart. Song u. along. Waltz from Greenbaum's sound film “Die Privatsekretärin” ( Paul Abraham , text by Robert Gilbert ) Renate Müller with Frank Fox dance orchestra. Columbia DV. 394 (WHA 282)
    • Video on YouTube : It's best we go to Morocco! Foxtrot from “Behind Us The Flood!” ( Paul Mann , text by Peter Herz and W. Steinberg-Frank) Frank Fox dance orchestra with vocals. Columbia DV. 505 (WHA 287)
    • Video on YouTube : Love me Szivem. Foxtrot (Fred Markush, text Emmerich Harmáth) Frank Fox and his orchestra with refraing singing [= The “ Two Jazzers ”: László Mocsányi and Tibor Lakos] Columbia DV 1071 (WHR 334²) rec. Vienna, September 1931
    • Video on YouTube : Kiss me (right on the mouth), Foxtrot ( Kálmán , Schanzer & Welisch) from “Der Teufelsreiter”. Frank Fox dance orchestra with refrain singing: Otto Neuman. Columbia DW.2127-II (C-WHA 461) © 1932
    • Video on YouTube : Sanam. Fox (S. Baltayan) Orchestra Scala Wien, conductor Frank Fox. Columbia DG 305 (WG 497) Greek pressing 1932
    • Video on YouTube : Frumoasa mea, eu te ador. Tangó (Rotter & Grothe, cuvinte de L. Pribeagu) cantat de Christian Vasile, acompaniat de Frank Fox dance orchestra. Columbia DV 443 (WHR 150) Romanian pressing 1932 This is the German tango camp "Mein Fräulein, I adore you" by Franz Grothe and Fritz Rotter .
    • Video on Dailymotion : You black gypsy. Song u. Tango ( Karel Vacek , text by Beda ) Frank Fox and his orchestra with refraing singing. Columbia DW. 4202 (WHA 516)
    • Video on YouTube : Tell me again. Tango (Karel Vacek, text by Hans Regina von Nack ) Frank Fox Scala-Orchester with refrain H [einrich]. Friedl. Columbia DV. 1030 (WHA 517)
    • Video on YouTube : The most beautiful sport is cycling, Foxtrot adRevue “O du mein Österreich” ( Robert Katscher , Karl Farkas , Géza Herczeg) Frank Fox and his orchestra, refrain singing Heinrich Friedl. Columbia DV.1075 (WHA 576)
    • Video on YouTube : Marikka! (Shuffle Off To Buffalo) Foxtrot ( Harry Warren , German text by Beda) Frank Fox and his orchestra, Refraingesang: Wiener Bohème Quartet. Columbia DV 1082 (mx. WHA 583) rec. Vienna 1933
    • Video on YouTube : She doesn't want flowers and chocolate (Oh Joseph Joseph, v. Cahn & Chaplin) Foxtrot ( Hans Carste - Klaus S. Richter) Orchestra Frank Fux. Telefunken AK 10 300 (mx. 25 779), up. Berlin 1941
    • Video on YouTube : "Sing a song when you're sad" Foxtrot ( RMSiegel ) Large dance orchestra, special arrangement and director Frank Fux. Telefunken AK 10 300 (mx. 25 782), up. 1943
    • Video on YouTube : Virtuoso. Foxtrot from the sound film "Aufruhr im Damenstift" (Frank Fux) Large sound film orchestra, special arrangement and director Frank Fux. Telefunken AK 10 302 (die number: 25 990)
    • [4] (MP3; 1.5 MB) Do you remember? Tango from the sound film "Aufruhr im Damenstift" (Frank Fux, text: A. von Pinelli) Hans Carste with his orchestra. Electrola EG 7197 (ORA 5003)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the film archive Kay Less
  2. ^ Stefan Neuhaus: Literature in Film: Examples of a Media Relationship. (= Film - Medium - Discourse. Volume 22). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8260-3805-1 , pp. 201-204.
  3. ↑ cf. Abella Ilona: A TWO JAZZERS TÖRTÉNETE ÉS DISZKOGRÁFIÁJA in: Jazzkutatás June 11, 1999 [1]
  4. ↑ Otto Neumann (also Neuman) was born on April 21, 1891 in Vienna and died there on December 28, 1956. He was with Columbia in Vienna from the mid-twenties and sang numerous records with popular music for them between 1924 and 1936. Most of the recordings were made in Vienna, but also in Berlin. Source: [2] , there also list of Austrian recordings with the dance orchestra (Col. DV 353 - DV 908) and the Scala orchestra (Col. DV 901 - DV 961) by Frank Fox.
  5. ↑ cf. Rudolf Lorenzen at [3] and Michael Kuhlmann: Popular music in the "Third Reich" - with special consideration of Afro-American influences. Grin Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-638-48739-3 , p. 24 and 38
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fux, Frank (maiden name); Fuchs, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bistritz am Hostein , Moravia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1965
Place of death Munich