Gert Wilden

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Gert Wilden (born April 15, 1917 in Mährisch-Trübau , Austria-Hungary ; † September 10, 2015 in Tutzing ; actually Gerhart Alfred Arnold Wychodil ) was a German composer , film composer , arranger and conductor . Alternative and publication names: Gert Wychodil, Frank Colter, V. Vychodil, Gerd Wilden, Jerry Wilton. His son Gert Wilden junior (* 1954) is also a film composer.

Life

After his childhood in Moravia and his A-levels, Wilden studied composition and conducting with George Szell , Fidelio F. Finke and Fritz Rieger at the music academy in Prague . While still a student, he took over the leadership of the Pilsen radio orchestra .

Wilden, who had meanwhile settled in Munich , came to film music after the Second World War . He became an arranger for well-known film composers such as Werner Richard Heymann , Lothar Brühne and Hans-Martin Majewski .

From the end of the 1950s, Wilden developed into one of the busiest film composers, mostly light entertainment films. In addition to his work for hit films , Wilden made a name for himself above all by providing background music to numerous adventure and crime films . In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wilden was the leading film composer of the sex wave in German cinema. One of his best-known works for television is the music for the animated series Heidi (1974).

Single Berlin, your face has freckles by Hildegard Knef, 1966. Gert Wilden and his orchestra

Wilden also worked as arranger and composer for Michael Holm , Harald Juhnke , Hildegard Knef , Peggy March , Vico Torriani , Martin Egel and many others. From 1961 to 1964 he was director of the Bavarian Radio Dance Orchestra . In 1976 he founded the vocal ensemble Die Viel-Harmoniker , in which he himself participated as a pianist . Gert Wilden also produced the singer Angela, who had a big hit with the theme song for the TV series Tammy, the houseboat girl .

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

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Discography (selection)

  • Gert Wilden & Orchestra, Schoolgirl Report Crippled Dick Hot Wax, CDHW 024
  • Gert Wilden & Orchestra, I Told You Not To Cry Crippled Dick Hot Wax, CDHW 031
  • German film composers, episode 2, Gert Wilden , Bear Family Records, BCD 16484 AR
  • Gert Wilden, I dream of you , Telefunken SLE 14 435-P
  • as Jerry Wilton and his Orchestra:

Hit-Magazin 68, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 487-P, Hit-Magazin 68 Episode 2, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 517-P, Hit-Magazin 69/1, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 532-P, Hit-Magazin 69/2, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 555-P, Hit-Magazin 70/1, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 567 -P, Hit-Magazin 70/2, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 577-P, Hit-Magazin 71/1, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE, Hit-Magazin 71/2, 28 Happy Hits for Dancing, Telefunken, SLE 14 612-P, Happy Sound For Dancing, SLE 14 449-P, Happy Sound For Dancing 2, SLE 14 473-P, The golden hits of the 30s, BASF 65 167 (1976),

literature

  • Gert Wilden: Do you recognize the melody ?: A composer's life between pop and classical music . BOOK & media, 2007.
  • Kiel Society for Film Music Research : Kiel contributions to film music research . 3, 2008, pp. 142-145.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ 1923 is often wrongly stated
  2. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 12, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wilden, Gert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wychodil, Gerhart Alfred Arnold (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravská Třebová
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2015
Place of death Tutzing