Gustav Pick

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Memorial plaque on the house where Gustav Pick was born in Rechnitz
Gustav Pick's grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery

Gustav Pick (born December 10, 1832 in Rechnitz , Burgenland , then Rohonc, Hungary ; † April 29, 1921 in Vienna ) was a musician and composer of Viennese songs .

life and work

The Jewish merchant's son Gustav Pick spent his childhood in the Jewish ghetto in Rechnitz. In 1845 the family moved to Vienna. As a bank clerk , he took piano lessons and soon began to compose. For a charity event organized by Princess Pauline von Metternich on the occasion of the centenary of the Fiaker guild in May 1885, Pick composed the Fiaker song , which the actor Alexander Girardi , who appeared as the highlight of this Prater Festival, performed. This song made Pick known instantly. The Wiener Schrammeln formed this song into the hymn of Vienna.

His grave is in the Israelite Department of the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 8/60/105).

During the period of National Socialism , Pick's works were banned because of his Jewish origins. In 1966 the Gustav-Pick-Gasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

family

His parents were Sigmund Pick (June 5, 1810 Sitke, Hungary - February 15, 1884 Kőszeg ) and Charlotte, b. Schey (1814 Kőszeg - January 16, 1884 ibid.) He and Friederike, b. Brandeis-Weikersheim (died at the age of 22 in Vienna on February 16, 1869), two sons, the military Alfred Pick (Vienna, January 15, 1964 - October 24, 1937) and the military and painter Rudolf Pick (Vienna, December 15, 1865 - December 12, 1915). Gustav Pick was a nephew of the banker and entrepreneur Friedrich Schey von Koromla . As a result, he was also related to Arthur Schnitzler (whose maternal grandmother, Amalie Markbreiter (1815-1884), was born Schey). In his novel The Way to the Free , Schnitzler portrayed Gustav and Rudolf Pick in the characters of father and son Eißler.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1921-05-03, page 14. Accessed on October 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schaller (Ed.): Operetta under the swastika: between acceptable art and “degeneration”: Contributions to a conference of the Dresden State Operetta . Metropol, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938690-35-2 , p. 10
  3. ↑ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neue Freie Presse, 1884-01-20, page 14. Retrieved on October 12, 2017 .
  4. ^ Arthur Schnitzler: Youth in Vienna . Fritz Molden Verlag, Vienna-Munich-Zurich, 1968

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Pick, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Rechnitz
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1921
Place of death Vienna