Fritz Jacoby (composer)

Carl Bernhard Fritz Jacoby , pseudonym Byjacco (born September 8, 1881 (according to other sources August 9, 1889 ) in Königsberg (Prussia) , † December 31, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German composer. His main creative period falls in the 1920s.

Jacoby lived and wrote in Berlin. He wrote light music, later also music for sound films, e.g. B. to the first Harry Piel sound film “He or I” from 1930.

literature

Hans-Jürgen Schaal : Fox dances and black pipes - 80 years ago Germany was a jazz country , cf. [4] .
Eva Weissweiler : Eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences . Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 (In addition to a history of its origins and effects, the book also contains a facsimile edition of the 1st edition of the lexicon).
Ulrich Kurth: "I don't give a damn about virtue and morality". On the foxtrot in the twenties , in: S. Schutte (Hrsg.): I just want to sing about life ... About popular music from the end of the 19th century to the end of the Weimar Republic , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, p 365-384, ISBN 978-3-499-17793-4 .
Fred Ritzel: "If the Kaiser had danced jazz ..." US dance music in Germany before and after the First World War , in: S. Schutte (Ed.): But I just want to sing about life ... About popular music from the outgoing 19th century to the end of the Weimar Republic , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987, pp. 365–384, ISBN 978-3-499-17793-4 .
ders .: Syncope dances. About imports of popular music from America in the period before the 1st World War , in: Kaspar Maase and Wolfgang Kaschuba (eds.): Schund und Schönheit. Popular culture around 1900 , Cologne a. a .: Böhlau 2001, ISBN 3-412-15800-3 , cf. [5]

Web links

Works by Fritz Jacoby alias Byjacco in the holdings of the German National Library and the German Music Archive
Fritz Byjacco in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ JACOBY Fritz on lesgensducinema.com
↑ Jacoby wrote a) operettas, e.g. B. The woman without a veil http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2008/10594/ ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . b) dance music, e.g. B. Dolores - Jazz Three Step by Byjacco (op.23) Evidence: Recording on Polyphon Record 15 598, 1919, cf. grammophon-platten.de [1] , on Parlophone P.1058 (mx. 2-2546). November 5, 1919, to be heard on youtube [2]
↑ "I think of you". Tango ad sound and speech film "He or I". M: Byjacco (NE 02/31). Tango band [Géza] Komor with refraing singing: Kurt Mühlhardt . Tri-Ergon Photo-Elektro-Record No. 6100-A (mx 04069); Source: lotz-verlag.de [3]

personal data
SURNAME	Jacoby, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jacoby, Carl Bernhard Fritz (full name); Byjacco (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 1943
Place of death	Berlin

[1] JACOBY Fritz on lesgensducinema.com

[2] Jacoby wrote a) operettas, e.g. B. The woman without a veil http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/volltexte/2008/10594/ ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . b) dance music, e.g. B. Dolores - Jazz Three Step by Byjacco (op.23) Evidence: Recording on Polyphon Record 15 598, 1919, cf. grammophon-platten.de [1] , on Parlophone P.1058 (mx. 2-2546). November 5, 1919, to be heard on youtube [2]

[3] "I think of you". Tango ad sound and speech film "He or I". M: Byjacco (NE 02/31). Tango band [Géza] Komor with refraing singing: Kurt Mühlhardt . Tri-Ergon Photo-Elektro-Record No. 6100-A (mx 04069); Source: lotz-verlag.de [3]