Harry Ralton

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Harry Ralton (born May 2, 1897 in Breslau as Karl Heinz Rosenthal , † April 8, 1953 ) was a German composer, pianist and author.

Life

Karl Heinz Rosenthal worked as a composer under the stage name "Harry Ralton". In addition to dance and light music, Ralton also wrote compositions for radio plays and revues and for the newly introduced sound film. In 1929/30 Ralton worked intensively with Max Ophüls at the " Schlesische Funkstunde " in Breslau under the director of Fritz Walter Bischoff . He wrote the music for revues on political and cultural topics that Ophüls, who was then senior director at the Breslauer Schauspielhaus, staged there. These were transmitted directly from the "Schlesische Funkstunde". Ophüls, who had already started working for radio earlier, had a regular radio column (“Theaterplauderei”) at the Breslauer Sender and produced, mostly together with Ralton, monthly cabaret magazines. After moving to Berlin in January 1931, he worked for the " Berliner Funkstunde ".

Ralton wrote politically committed songs that were sung by Ernst Busch . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Ralton had to leave Germany. He emigrated to England. There he became a naturalized British citizen. In the 1940s he ran his own small music publisher (“Arcadia Music”) in London. In 1948 he finally gave up his maiden name in favor of his stage name. Ralton died in England on April 8, 1953.

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Sound documents (selection)

Recordings on industrial records:

  • Electro-Vox 8644, The Dolly Brothers. Foxtrot, Bernard Etté dance orchestra
  • Electro-Vox 8677, Eine kleine Liebelei, Boston (H. Ralton, F. Rotter), Orchestra Gabriel Formiggini, vocals Theo Lucas
  • Parlophone B.12 001, a little love affair. Boston (H. Ralton, F. Rotter), Edith Lorand Orchestra.
  • Grammophon 21 373 b dto., “Paul Godwin with his artist ensemble”
  • Grammophon 21 443 b dto., “Paul Godwin's Jazz Sinfoniker”
  • Odeon O-4923 a dto., Kammersgr. Richard Tauber , with the Odeon artist orchestra
  • Gramophone 22 006, baby, you've changed. Foxtrot (Text: Fritz Rotter ), Paul Godwin Orchestra
  • Gramophone 22 004 dto., With refrain singing
  • Odeon O-2870 a dto., With refraing singing, Dajos Béla orchestra
  • Derby blue 5543 a, If you kiss me, the world will sink around me. Blues (H. Ralton, F. Rotter, O. Stranský), dance orchestra
  • Gramophone 22 004 b dto., With refraing singing, Paul Godwin orchestra
  • Odeon O-2870 b dto., With refraing singing, Dajos Béla orchestra
  • Gloria GO 10 711 a, six-day race (C. Behr / H. Ralton), Ernst Busch, with orchestra, conductor: Otto Dobrindt
  • Gloria GO 10 711 b, Song of the Marbles (M. Ophüls / H. Ralton), Ernst Busch, with orchestra, conductor: Otto Dobrindt

Sound films

  • A little love affair. Lied und Valse Boston., Germany 1929, short feature film. Director: Guido Bagier. Singing: Erik Wirl .
  • Into the blue., Germany 1929, short fiction film. Director: Eugen Schüfftan.
  • According to IMDb, Ralton worked, albeit uncredited , in 1946 in British exile on the soundtrack of the music film “Here Comes The Sun” with the popular comedian duo (Bud) Flanagan and (Chesney) Allen. The film by John Baxter (1896-1975) premiered on June 10, 1946.

Works in emigration (1940/1950) are in the National Library of Australia in the catalog:

Re-releases

  • CD That nothing stays as it was! Singers, choirs, orchestras, part 3 (1928–1945), contains by Harry Ralton on track 45 Das Lied von den Murmeln,
  • Accompanying CD to Schramm and Elsner, 2006 contains “Sechstagerennen” and “Das Lied von den Murmeln” by Harry Ralton.
  • CD Ernst Busch - The Barricade Tauber. Label: Edition BARBArossa - EdBa 01303-2 (1994) track 2 contains the "Song of the Marbles" and track 9 "Six-Day Race ".

Many of his compositions can be heard on YouTube. Notes and texts:

  • The text of the song “Sechstagerennen” by Carl Behr
  • The sheet music for "Song of the marbles" offers the web page of the union's choir "cross singing"

literature

  • Eva Weissweiler: “Ausgemerzt!”: The “Lexicon of Jews in Music” and its murderous consequences. Among employees by Lilli Weissweiler. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 . (Contains pp. 181–375 reprint of: Lexikon der Juden in der Musik. Berlin 1940)
  • CineGraph. Lexicon for German-language films. edition text & kritik, Munich 1977ff. (With detailed filmography)
  • Introductions to the text and music of the revue »Saisonausverkauf 1929« by Max Ophüls and Harry Ralton. In: Art and People. 1929, 06 vol. 6 issue 10 online in the Digital Library of the University of Wrocław
  • About the music for Harry Ralton's »Season Sale«. In: Art and People. 1929, 08 vol. 6 issue 12 online in the Digital Library of the University of Wrocław
  • Music reports: pp. 35, 127, 173, 217, 264, 308, 361. Harry Ralton and Max Ophüls: Aschermittwoch, p. 59, In: Schlesische Monatshefte, Blätter für Kultur und Literatur der Heimat. Volume VII, January 1930, number 1. online in the Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa
  • Hermann Naber: On the birth of the radio play from the spirit of the operetta. In: Andreas Stuhlmann (Ed.): Radio culture and audio art: Between avant-garde and popular culture 1923-2001. Pp. 105-116.
  • Carola Schramm, Jürgen Elsner: Poetry and Truth - The creation of legends about Ernst Busch. Half volume 1 and half volume 2 and CD-ROM with original recordings of songs and texts by Ernst Busch. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89626-640-3 .
  • Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk: Lexicon of Jews in Music: with a list of titles of Jewish works. zsgest. on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. Hahnefeld, Berlin 1940, DNB 949056502 .
  • A. Stuhlmann (Ed.): Radio culture and audio art between avant-garde and popular culture 1923-2001. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-2097-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Stengel-Gerigk sp. 238
  2. ↑ Examples (from 1929): * The Dolly Brothers. Foxtrot * baby, you've changed. Foxtrot (Text: Fritz Rotter) * A little love affair, Boston (Text: Fritz Rotter) * If you kiss me, the world will sink around me. Blues (Text: Fritz Rotter & Otto Stransky)
  3. ↑ cf. StG p. 331 “Bilanz”, Funk-Revue, p. 402 “We don't have time”, Funk-Posse.
  4. ↑ cf. StG p. 374 “Into the Blue”: short film. Germany 1929, directed by Eugen Schüfftan , with Theo Lingen , Wolfgang Staudte , Tony van Eyck , 35 min. Cf. [1] and “Into the Blue”: short film. Director: Eugen Schüfftan. Music: Harry Ralton. Musical. Head: Alfred Strasser . See [2] . Note: although the film is referred to as “silent”, Franz Schröder is listed as sound engineer (“sound department”) both at ImdB and at filmportal.de. A copy is in the holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Another short feature film from the same year, for which Ralton wrote the music, was called "A little love affair, song and Valse Boston", cf. [3] , like the hit that Ralton had composed. It is performed here by the tenor Erik Wirl . Playing time: 5 min. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / osiris22.pi-consult.de
  5. ^ Recte Oppenheimer, b. on May 6, 1902 in St. Johann / Saar (from 1914 Saarbrücken), died on March 26, 1957 in Hamburg. Filmmaker and radio pioneer [4] .
  6. ↑ cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 163 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dra.de
  7. ↑ At that time Ralton was the 'house composer' at the Breslauer Bühnen. See Naber p. 116.
  8. ↑ z. B. “Season sales” - political and cultural topics in songs and skits, since 1927, cf. Article “Introductions to the text and music of the revue 'Saisonausverkauf 1929' by Max Ophüls and Harry Ralton” in: Kunst und Volk 1929-06 vol. 6 issue 10, and “About the music for the 'Saisonausverkauf' by Harry Ralton” in: Kunst and Volk 1929, 8 year 6 issue 12.
  9. ↑ cf. CineGraph. Lexicon for German-language films. Munich: edition text & kritik 1977ff .: “In 1925 Ophüls began his work for the radio as a reciter in test programs for the station Elberfeld; from 1927 he also works for the broadcasters in Cologne and Stuttgart, reads contemporary literature and from 1928 writes his own audio scenarios ... "
  10. ↑ cf. Ronny Loewy and Hans-Michael Bock. Biography of Max Ophüls: [5] "Performances of the Breslauer Schauspiel, a theater chat by head director Max Ophüls" is the name of his funk column ... "
  11. ↑ cf. ibid. “At the end of the theater season, the Wroclaw program has featured 'Season Sale' since 1927 - political and cultural themes in songs and sketches. In 1929 and 1930 Ophüls and the composer Harry Ralton are the authors of these revues, which Ophüls also staged and which were broadcast directly by the 'Schlesische Funkstunde'. Ophüls is a permanent employee of the Breslauer Sender (director: Friedrich Bischoff) ... ” and “ In 1929/30, Ophüls worked with the composer Harry Ralton to develop revues on political and cultural issues that were broadcast directly by the 'Schlesische Funkstunde'. Ophüls becomes a permanent employee as a radio columnist at the Breslauer Sender and produces cabaret monthly magazines with Ralton. In January 1931 Ophüls moved to Berlin and staged ... at the Komödienhaus tabloids ... He also worked for the Berliner Funkstunde “. [6]
  12. ↑ 1. he sets the text "Sechstagerennen" by Carl Behr to music. Received on: Ernst Busch: Six-day race. Berlin 1932. (Record Gloria GO 10 711 a. Recorded in 1932 in Berlin, with orchestra, conductor: Otto Dobrindt). CD-ROM sound sample 11: C. Behr / H. Ralton - Six Days. 2. Again in collaboration with Max Ophüls, who wrote the text, the "Song of the Marbles" is created: Received from: Ernst Busch: The Song of the Marbles. Berlin 1932. (Record Gloria GO 10 711 b, recorded in Berlin in 1932, with orchestra, conductor: Otto Dobrindt). CD-ROM sound sample 15: M. Ophüls / H. Ralton - The Song of the Marbles. Both recordings were re-released on CD-ROM in 2006. See Schramm / Elsner 2006 [7]  ( 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. The texts can be found under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.trafoberlin.de   @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erinnerorte.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erinnerorte.de
  13. ↑ cf. [8] and Hillary Ashton 1994 [9] : “In 1949 Tomlinson obtained a copyist / arranger post at a small publisher, Arcadia Music. He chose his moment to play to his new boss, Harry Ralton, all the pieces he had been hawking around. "
  14. ↑ vl. Advertisement in the »London Gazette« of July 27, 1948, p. 4269 [10]  ( 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. (PDF file; 165 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  15. ↑ cf. The Music Sack [11]
  16. ↑ [12]
  17. ↑ dismarc.org
  18. ↑ [13]
  19. ↑ catalog
  20. ↑ artistdirect.com
  21. ↑ cf. artistdirect.com
  22. ↑ trafoberlin.de  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.trafoberlin.de  
  23. ↑ rad-spannerei.de
  24. ↑ quergesang.de ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.quergesang.de
personal data
SURNAME Ralton, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenthal, Karl Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1953