Hans Otten (composer)

Hans Otten (born July 10, 1905 in Cologne ; † October 31, 1942 there ) was a German composer .

Life

Hans Ottens' main creative period falls in the second half of the 1920s and 1930s. The gifted musician Otten wrote vocal pieces for male choirs, hits , but above all carnival songs , most of which were texted by the hand-made orator and dialect poet Gerhard Ebeler . Ebeler was usually the first to perform the songs and then sang them on record. He also ran his own music publisher. In the years before the Second World War, the Otten-Ebeler team supplied the Rhenish carnival with relevant songs. Many of their hits have become Cologne evergreens that are still sung today. Their jointly composed Schunkelwalzer “You can not be faithful”, which the Cologne folk singer Grete Fluss had launched on December 31, 1932 in the carnival revue “D'r Zog kütt” [The (carnival) procession is coming], came in the middle 1930s on record and went around the world.

Works

Songs for male choir

Hans Otten / Willi Webels:

• A musical breakfast. Humorous male quartet / well-composed performance with piano accompaniment using familiar melodies. No. 225
• Amanda and her pug. Funny ballad for male choir or quartet with piano accompaniment. No. 251
• Funny reserve songs. A sequence of happy melodies that are often sung as a male quartet. No. 247

Hans Otten / Willy Parten-Willi Webels:

• When the sun shines on the Rhine. Song and slow waltz for male choir or quartet with piano accompaniment. No. 306

Bat

• But today we are jolly - Marschfox
• My sweetheart lives on the Rhine - waltz song
• Because in the forest there are the hunters - march to an old folk song
• Chime sounded, clinked a bell - waltz song
• Whether we save or not is the same - Lied and Foxtrot
• Uncle Gustav brought me something - Rhinelander
• And then we press the button again - mood march

A list of the carnival songs by Otten and Ebeler can be found at the Kölschen Liedersammlung.

Audio documents

Songs by Otten & Ebeler sung by "Willy Breuer, Rhenish singer, with Egon Kaiser dance orchestra":

• You can have everything, everything from me , waltz song. Gramophone 2660-A, die number 7391 1/2 GR-8
• And then we press the button again , mood march. Gramophone 2660-B, die number 7392 1/2 GR-8
• You are my gem , Rhenish marching song. Gramophone 2836-A, die number 8114 1/2 GR-8
• I would be as beautiful as you , waltz song. Gramophone 2836-B, die number 8125 1/2 GR-8
• Thou know I ben ticklish , waltz song. Gramophone 2837-A, die number 8117 1/2 GR8
• Hück make a quick visit , marching song. Gramophone 2837-B, die number 8124 1/2 GR-8
• You cannot be faithful , waltz song. The 5 Gloria vocal guitarists Gloria GO27 000 a (Bi 2154), 1935 ( video on YouTube )
  • American version: You Can't Be True, Dear (English text by Hal Cotton). Organ: Ken Griffin, vocals: Jerry Wayne. Rondo R-228-A ( video on YouTube straight from 1948 )
• But today we are jolly! March-Fox, Orchestra Will Glahé, Refraingesang: Erwin Hartung. RCA Victor 25-4003-B “recorded in Europe” ( video on YouTube )

Re-releases

• Dat singing and sounding Cologne . 4 CDs. Label: Carl (1998).

literature

• H. Büttner: Alaaf on 78. In: Klaus Krüger (Ed.): Fox on 78. Gerhard Ebeler, Munich, issue 5, spring 1988, p. 44 f.
• Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, DNB 911350551 , unpag.
• Rainer E. Lotz (Ed.): Deutsche National-Diskographie Volume 5, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-9805808-1-4 .
• Hans Otten, Gerhard Ebeler (Hrsg.): Years ago, many years ago - melodies by Hans Otten . Gerhard Ebeler, Cologne around 1985, DNB 350133182 .
• Helmut Rosner, Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel (eds.); Paul Frank: Concise Tonkünstler Lexicon. Part 2, Volume 2: Additions and extensions since 1937. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1978, ISBN 3-7959-0087-5 .
• Konrad Vogelsang: Film music in the Third Reich. Facta Oblita, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-926827-28-9 , p. 259.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Otten in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dismarc.org.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} so “Die Große Kölner”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ A number of songs were also interpreted by the “Rhenish singer” (labels!) Willy Breuer .
3. ^ The Gerhard Ebeler-Musikverlag, today in the Association of Music Publishers Hans Gerig KG in Bergisch Gladbach.
4. ^ After 1973 the Kreissparkasse Köln published a number of LPs with carnival songs under this title, cf. www.karneval.de ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. An interview with the song collector Reinhold Louis at the Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .   
5. ↑ on the revues cf. the lexicon at www.mmm1952.de : "In the twenties and thirties the" kölschen revues "in" Groß Köln "(today Sartory) were the attraction in carnival-like Cologne. Between New Years and Ash Wednesday, Grete Fluss, the undisputed star at the time, filled up on all stages, the "Groß Köln" twice a day down to the last seat. Hans Jonen, Gerhard Ebeler, Hans Otten, Engelbert Sassen and also Willi Ostermann wrote and wrote new hits over and over again. "Och wat wor dat earlier but en Colonia" "Kölsche girls, Cologne boys sin dem Herrgott got successful", "You can't be faithful", "We won't fall into the trap until our money runs out" and many other songs have "become independent" and are still sung today After the war it was in particular Gerhard Jussenhoven and Hans Jonen who revived the Cologne revues: "Aat bliev Aat", "Vun Neujohr bes Äschermettwoch" and many more. After Grete Fluss resigned in 1955, the revue began at the Kaiserhof -Career of Trude Herr. More than a decade passed before Walter Bockmeyer brought Cologne revues back onto the boards. "
6. ↑ a list of the editions on Youtube , sheet music at # 93; = mnr424z & contUid = 11243 ( memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , the text by Gerhard Ebeler at www.rcaguilar.com , where the song is declared a 'folk tune' without mentioning its two authors! 
7. ↑ cf. Bernhard Vogel at The Main Event ; on the legal dispute over authorship cf. Spiegel 1/1950: “The fifth wheel on the Berlin car was Gerhard Ebeler, senior of Cologne's Schlager and Krätzchensingers. An American music copyist who scented royalties turned Ebeler's top hit ("You can't be true") into "You can't be true, dear" and a nourishing American business. " and US document  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Search for "Hans Otten" ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ label name for Die Metropol-Vokalisten: Wilfried Sommer, Günter Leider, Peter Purand, Richard Westermeyer and Kurt Bangert.