Georg Freundorfer
Georg Freundorfer (born July 23, 1881 in Munich , † December 18, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German zither player and composer.
Freundorfer first learned the trade of beer brewer . He began his musical career as a teenager with performances as a zither soloist. Freundorfer celebrated his first successes with the pianist Bernhard Derksen , with whom he first appeared as a duo and later with a full salon orchestra.
In 1912 Freundorfer moved to Berlin . Here he became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1920s and 1930s with compositions such as The Way to the Heart and On the Beautiful Green Isar, as well as numerous radio concerts .
Georg Freundorfer dedicated the march Greetings to Obersalzberg to Obersalzberg during the National Socialist era . Today the march is known as Greetings to Upper Bavaria .
In the winter of 1940 Freundorfer fell after a concert on an icy staircase, and a little later he succumbed to his serious injuries. He was buried in an urn grave in the Bamberg cemetery.
Web links
- Works by and about Georg Freundorfer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters, 1898-1945 . B. Leimbach, 1991 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ List of titles on dismarc.org.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freundorfer, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German zither player and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1940 |
| Place of death | Berlin |