Giorgi Vintilescu

Giorgi Vintilescu (who appeared in Berlin as George Vintilescu ) was a Romanian conductor who led the orchestra of the well-known noble dance hall Palais de Danse in Behrensstrasse in Berlin before the First World War . It became significant for the history of jazz reception in Germany because it interpreted North American dances such as cakewalk , two-step and ragtime as early as the 1910s and soon recorded them on records. At that time he was considered the king of ragtime in Germany . He also included Latin American dances such as Tango argentino or Maxixe brésilienne in his repertoire. Even after 1918 Vintilescu still played contemporary dance music. Messages from later times are missing.

literature

Wolfgang Hirschenberger: Popular Music and Jazz in Austria - Historical Sound Documents 1902–1920
Horst H. Lange: The German "78" discography of jazz and hot dance music 1903-1958 . Berlin, Colloquium Verlag, 1966, length 775 pages.
Rainer E. Lotz : German National Discography. Vol. 2, ISBN 3-9802656-8-4 and ISBN 978-3-9802656-8-3 .
Rainer E. Lotz: Gramophone records from the ragtime era. Harenberg, Dortmund 1979.
Rainer E. Lotz: Jazzfreund Publication No.21 a, Hot Dance Bands in Germany - Vol. I: The Pre-History - A Photo Album (German / English), cf. [5] contains a photo by Vintilescu.
Johnny Răducanu : Jazzul in Romania. [6]
Iosif Viehmann: Jazz intre paleolitic si cultura americana Clujul pentru toti, Joi, 27 Martie 2008 ( Memento from March 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Remarks

↑ At times Rudolf Hoffmann also directed the orchestra.
↑ For 1912 Beka the Mysterious Rag by Ted Snyder (The plates were also in Vienna under the name Vienna First Dance band published [1] ) on Concert Record Gramophone Gr 12,379 Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin) / Auto Liebchen Twostep (Jean Gilbert ), Gr 12 563 Mysterious Rag (Ted Snyder) / Oh! You Beautiful Doll (Nat D. Ayer), Gr 12 872 Red Pepper Rag (Henry Lodge) / Temptation Rag (Henry Lodge), cf. Lange pp. 772–774 and grammophon-platten.de [2]
↑ Horst H. Lange Jazz in Germany , p. 17
↑ A catalog record for recordings after 1918: Vox 01309 (mx. 899 A) Tanz-Orchester Vintilescu: Anything Is Nice That Comes From Dixieland according to Vox recording book [3] (PDF; 3.1 MB) 1922 (NE 03/1923 ), to be heard at [4] ; Lange p. 955 assigns this recording to Giorgi Vintilescu. It may also be a recording with his brother Constantin, who was also a violinist.

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personal data
SURNAME	Vintilescu, Giorgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vintilescu, George; Vintilescu, Georgi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[1] At times Rudolf Hoffmann also directed the orchestra.

[2] For 1912 Beka the Mysterious Rag by Ted Snyder (The plates were also in Vienna under the name Vienna First Dance band published [1] ) on Concert Record Gramophone Gr 12,379 Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin) / Auto Liebchen Twostep (Jean Gilbert ), Gr 12 563 Mysterious Rag (Ted Snyder) / Oh! You Beautiful Doll (Nat D. Ayer), Gr 12 872 Red Pepper Rag (Henry Lodge) / Temptation Rag (Henry Lodge), cf. Lange pp. 772–774 and grammophon-platten.de [2]

[3] Horst H. Lange Jazz in Germany , p. 17

[4] A catalog record for recordings after 1918: Vox 01309 (mx. 899 A) Tanz-Orchester Vintilescu: Anything Is Nice That Comes From Dixieland according to Vox recording book [3] (PDF; 3.1 MB) 1922 (NE 03/1923 ), to be heard at [4] ; Lange p. 955 assigns this recording to Giorgi Vintilescu. It may also be a recording with his brother Constantin, who was also a violinist.