Giuseppe Becce

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Giuseppe Becce , pseudonym Peter Becker , (born February 3, 1877 in Lonigo , Vicenza Province , Italy , † October 5, 1973 in Berlin ) was an Italian film composer and actor .

Life

Becce came from a rural background in Lonigo (Vicenza, Northern Italy). His musical talent was discovered as a child. In Padua he learned to play the cello and flute . Even while studying geography and philology, he worked as a conductor of the university orchestra at the age of 20. In 1900 he came to Berlin and continued his geography studies. But he also took composition seminars with Arthur Nikisch and Ferruccio Busoni . Music became more and more the center of his life. In 1910 he wrote the operetta "Das Bett der Pompadour" and in 1912 the opera "Tullia".

For the film Richard Wagner , produced by Oskar Messter in 1913 , Giuseppe Becce wrote a separate accompanying music and also played the title role under the direction of Carl Froelich . For other films he wrote short pieces of music that, flexibly enough, could be varied to accompany recurring film situations. A collection of these compositions, the so-called " Kinothek ", was published between 1919 and 1933 by Verlag Schlesinger'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin. Individual pieces found their way into the genre of salon music .

From 1915 to 1923 Becce directed the small orchestra of the Berlin Mozart Hall on Nollendorfplatz . After the First World War , Becce became the head of the music department of Decla-Bioscop AG and chief conductor of the film orchestra, which later became the UFA orchestra, and works as a cinema bandmaster in the Berlin premiere film theaters (from 1922 UFA pavilion on Nollendorfplatz , 1923 Tauentzien-Palast, 1926 Gloria Palace ). Now he worked with the great directors of the silent film era such as Fritz Lang , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Georg Wilhelm Pabst , Ernst Lubitsch , Ludwig Berger , Joe May and Berthold Viertel and arranged and sometimes wrote larger film scores for them.

In 1920 Becce published the magazine Film-Ton-Kunst , from 1921 the “Kinomusikblatt” , from 1926 again under the title “Film-Ton-Kunst. A magazine for the artistic music illustration of the photo ” , from 1927 the official communication organ of the“ Society of Filmmusik-Autor Deutschlands e. V. “, in 1928 this was transferred to the magazine RDK, confidential communications from the Reichsbund deutscher Kinokapellmeister .

In 1927 he edited the two-volume Allgemeine Handbuch der Filmmusik together with Hans Erdmann and Ludwig Brav . a. based on his cinema library. The second part contains 3000 excerpts from works by 200 composers on characteristic film situations such as B. "Low point, resignation" and enabled the silent film pianists to easily create films with standardized genre intonations and motifs by composers such as d'Albert , Auber , Bizet , Delibes , Massenet , Sibelius , Smetana , Tchaikovsky and Verdi , but also film illustrators such as Morris Aborn , Gaston Borch , Carl May, John Stepan Zamecnik , and Becce himself.

Urn grave of Becce and his wife Emma, ​​b. Woop, at the Berlin-Wilmersdorf cemetery

With the beginning of the sound film, he was responsible for various opera, operetta and music films, worked with Leni Riefenstahl , also for the Olympia film and Luis Trenker , for whom he set his mountain and home films to music in the later years. His extraordinarily productive work for film in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s was in rare cases exclusively his own composition, mostly Becce mixed his own creations with those of other composers.

Becce returned to Italy in 1941, but resumed his work in Germany after the Second World War . At first he lived in Munich and in South Tyrol, where he worked again with Luis Trenker. He later moved to Berlin. In the 1950s Giuseppe Becce often wrote music for the West German Heimatfilm .

He was married to the writer Emma Woop, who also wrote lyrics for his songs. His grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

Becce also wrote war and detective novels in the 1910 / 20s (partly under the pseudonym "Peter Becker") for the Verlag modern reading in Berlin and the Mignon-Verlag in Dresden.

Awards

Filmography (with Becce as a composer or actor)

Fonts

Giuseppe Becce

  • The telegraph operator. Original war novel (= Mignon-Romane. Vol. 97, ZDB -ID 2682606-9 ). Mignon-Verlag, Dresden 1915.
  • The voice of home. Original war novel (= Mignon-Romane. Vol. 111). Mignon-Verlag, Dresden 1915.
  • The gold ship (= Mignon-Romane. Vol. 125). Mignon-Verlag, Dresden 1915.

Peter Becker (pseudonym)

  • The heroic death of Schill and his officers. Patriotic folk piece (= theater library. Issue 305, ZDB -ID 2251576-8 ). Heidelmann, Bonn 1910.
  • The wish god. Kriminal Roman (= Mignon-Romane. Vol. 149). Mignon-Verlag, Dresden 1916 (later: (= Kleine Kriminal-Bücher. Nr. 24) ibid 1919).
  • Miss Wells' strange adventure (= The detective. Harald Harst, from my life. No. 159). Verlag modern reading Berlin 1925.
  • The head of the Shinta (= The Detective. Harald Harst, from my life. No. 160). Verlag modern reading, Berlin 1925.
  • Ritter der Landstrasse (= cable crime books. Vol. 41). Verlag modern reading, Berlin 1925
  • The chess player. Detective novel (= Who was it? Vol. 334). Freya publishing house, Heidenau 1926.

Audio documents

  • “The Merry Widow” Big Potpourri, Part 1 (Lehár) Dr. Giuseppe Becce with his TERRA symphonists . ODEON O-2639 a (Matr. Be 7355-2)
  • dto., 2nd part, ODEON O-2639 b (Matr. Be 7356-2), add. October 1928

literature

  • with Hans Erdmann , Ludwig Brav: General handbook of film music. 2 volumes. Schlesinger'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1927;
    • Volume 1: Music and Film. Directories.
    • Volume 2: Thematic scale register.
  • Movie sound art. A magazine for artistic music illustration of the photograph. Founded by Giuseppe Becce. Schlesinger'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1, 1920 - 6, 1927. ZDB -ID 2527347-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film-Sound-Art ( Memento from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ): Editor: Giuseppe Becce.
  2. ↑ Hans Traub, Hanns W. Lavies: Das Deutsche Filmschrifttum. Bibliography of books and magazines on film 1896–1939. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1940. Reprint: Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7772-8016-X , pp. 20, 221.
  3. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President.
  4. ^ Siegfried Augustin , Walter Henle (ed.): From Robinson to Harald Harst. An adventure almanac. Ronacher-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-923191-05-7 .
  5. ↑ a b to listen to on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Becce, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film composer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Lonigo , Vicenza , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1973
Place of death Berlin