Hans Bund

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Hans Bund in the radio studio of the WDR
Grave of Hans Bund in the forest cemetery in Munich-Solln

Hans Bund (also Jack Bund , born August 15, 1898 in Neunkirchen (Saarland) , † February 1, 1982 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German pianist , conductor , composer and arranger in the field of popular music .

Life

He got his first piano lessons from his father, who was a music teacher in Saarbrücken . He then studied piano and organ at the Cologne Conservatory with Elly Ney and at the Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt (Main) . He later went to Berlin , continued his training at the Academic University of Music in the subjects of piano, organ, counterpoint , composition and conducting with Ernst von Dohnányi , among others , and graduated in 1919 with distinction.

In the early 1930s he founded the “Hans Bund Jazz Orchestra” at the Berlin cabaret “ Schall und Rauch ”, which he directed as a pianist and for which he wrote the arrangements. In 1932 he joined him a. a. in the film Der Sieger with Hans Albers . After it was renamed the “Bravour Orchestra”, other film and radio productions followed. He accompanied singers such as Gerda Gerold , Erna Sack , Mimi Thoma , Erwin Hartung , Fritzi Massary , Ernst Rolf , Rudi Schuricke and Richard Tauber and produced records for Carl Lindström , Telefunken , Odeon and Polydor . When he came to the Reichsender Berlin in 1932 , he had a small ensemble for light music there at the end of the 1930s: “Bunds Piano-Rhythmiker”. In 1942 he took over the orchestra from Otto Dobrindt .

After the end of National Socialism , he was employed by the British supervisor for music at the NWDR , Captain Ken Bartlett, at the Funkhaus Köln in April 1946 to put together a new band. He then founded a 35-man orchestra that had its first concert in June 1946 and from which the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne developed in 1947 . As a smaller formation, he formed a new ensemble at WDR in 1948 called "Hans Bund und seine Solisten", which preferred a more chamber music style of making music and which he directed until 1959. After leaving the WDR in 1962, he moved to his retirement home in Rottach-Egern in Bavaria and still composed pieces in the field of popular music.

Compositions

  • A little village story (1938)
  • Memory of a ball experience (1939)
  • In Spanish gardens
  • Silly and frivolous
  • The little guards
  • Festival at the Belvedere
  • A quarter of an hour
  • Love and life
  • The charmer
  • Spanish dance
  • Flowers in the wind
  • Con amore
  • Dance of the puppets

Discography

  • My Baby Parlafone 1932
  • Vägen som går dit är lång lång lång (with Ernst Rolf), 1932
  • Teddy bear picnic , Odeon O-11744b
  • For a little bit of sun (Bathing in the sunshine), Telefunken O-11658b
  • Peter, Peter (with Gerda Gerold), Odeon O-11640b
  • On a rainbow (I'm dancing on a rainbow), Telefunken 1932
  • A song goes around the world Telefunken 1933
  • Orient Express , Telefunken 1933
  • SOS , Telefunken 1934
  • Marietta , with Rudi Schuricke, Imperial 1938
  • Can you whistle, Johanna , with Erwin Hartung, Telefunken A1546
  • What am I without you , with Erwin Hartung, Telefunken A1665
  • What am I without you Telefunken A1665
  • For a blissful night , Polydor 1941
  • The old arbor (from Letters of the Heart ), with Mimi Thoma, Polydor 47809 / B
  • The morality of small thoughts , with Mimi Thoma, Polydor 47985 / A
  • When spring comes , Bunds's Piano Rhythmician, Parlophone 11570, 1941
  • Just one night of bliss , Bunds's piano rhythmist, Parlophone 11570, 1941
  • Wiener Bonbon , Hans Bund, large dance orchestra, Polydor 47590A, 1941
  • Stories from the Vienna Woods , Hans Bund, large dance orchestra, Polydor 47590B, 1941
  • Voices of Spring , Hans Bund, Tanzorchester, Polydor 47650A, 1941
  • On the beautiful blue Danube , Hans Bund, Tanzorchester, Polydor 47650B, 1941
  • Yes, the heather is green , Hans Bund, Bravour-Tanzorchester, Odeon O-11714a
  • Harlequin , Hans Bund, Bravour-Tanzorchester, Odeon O-11714b
  • That was Count von Rüdesheim , Hans Bund orchestra, Willi Weiss singing, Telefunken A1511
  • Town Musicians of Bremen , Orchestra Hans Bund, vocals Willi Weiss, Telefunken A1511
  • When the humming bass hums, I'm in love , Orchestra Hans Bund, Ges.Erwin Hartung, Telefunken A1617
  • Listen, the cuckoo! , Orchestra Hans Bund, vocals Erwin Hartung, Telefunken A1617
  • Music is played very softly , the Hans Bund orchestra, vocals Rudi Schuricke, Polydor 47595A mx. 19½GX9

Filmography

  • The winner, directed by Hans Hinrich , with Hans Albers a. a., Berlin 1932
  • The sky blue evening dress, directed by Erich Engels , Berlin 1941

literature

  • Toby Thacker: Music after Hitler 1945-1955 , Aldershot 2007
  • Andreas Vollberg (Ed.): From Trizonesia to the Starlight Era , Münster 2003
  • Egon Wolff: From Eysoldt's “Germania” band to a symphonic all-round ensemble. The Cologne Radio Orchestra through the ages . In: “It is easy, but the easy is difficult”. 50 years of the Cologne Radio Orchestra 1947-1997 . ed. from WDR, Cologne 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Bund, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bund, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, conductor and composer in the field of light music
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saarland)
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1982
Place of death Rottach-Egern