Heinrich Berté

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Heinrich (Harry) Berté , actually: Heinrich Bettelheim (born May 8, 1857 in Galgócz , Neutra county ; † August 23, 1924 in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna ) was an Austrian composer . He was the uncle of Emil Berté the Elder . J. (1898-1968).

Life

Heinrich Berté, son of a doctor, is said to have left his hometown after his death in 1867. After one year of technical studies, he attended the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna from 1884 , where he studied composition and counterpoint with Franz Krenn and is said to have been a student of Joseph Hellmesberger , Robert Fuchs and Anton Bruckner .

At the beginning of his career, Berté was a relatively unsuccessful composer of ballets and an opera. In 1911, the writer Alfred Maria Willner offered him a libretto for an operetta about Franz Schubert based on the recently completed novel Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch , which Berté first composed with his own music, but after he realized that it was unsuccessful, provided it with an arrangement of famous music by Franz Schubert . The work Das Dreimäderlhaus , which premiered on January 15, 1916 in the Raimundtheater in Vienna , was a global success with translations in 22 languages ​​(1921 as Blossom Time in New York, 1922 as Lilac Time in London) and performances in over 60 countries. The operetta was also filmed several times. Berté could not build on this success, his second Schubert operetta ( Lenz und Liebe ) was unsuccessful.

Honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Berté, a bachelor throughout his life, lived with his brother, Emil Berté the Elder. Ä. (* 1856 or 1855; † 1922), who led him as a partner in his Wiener Musikalien- und Bühnenverlag to give him financial independence.

Heinrich Berté is buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 59 A, Row 6, No. 16).

In 1929, in recognition of the composer, a traffic area in Vienna- Liesing was named Bertégasse .

Works

Operas

  • The Snowflake ( Prague , 1896)

Operettas

  • Bureau Malicone (Vienna, 1891)
  • The new mayor (Vienna, 1904)
  • The millionaire bride ( Munich , 1904)
  • The City Regent (Munich, 1905)
  • The Little Chevalier ( Dresden , 1907)
  • The beautiful guardsman ( Breslau , 1907)
  • The lucky jester (Vienna, 1908)
  • Creole blood ( Hamburg , 1911)
  • The Prince Charming ( Hanover , 1914)
  • The Dreimäderlhaus (Vienna, 1916; with music by Franz Schubert)
  • Lenz and love (Hamburg, 1918; with music by Franz Schubert)
  • The three cavaliers (Vienna, 1919)
  • Coulisse secrets (Hamburg, 1920)

literature

  • Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Heinrich Berté and the Dreimäderlhaus. In: Local history supplement [to the official gazette of the district authority Mödling], 49th volume, F. 3, (Mödling September 5, 2014).
  • R (ainhard) Wiesinger:  Berte, Heinrich . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wiesinger: Berté, Heinrich .
  2. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Death of the composer Heinrich Berté. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 21536/1924, August 24, 1924, p. 11, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.

Remarks

  1. ^ Paulanergasse 8 or, as an identification address, Wiedner Hauptstraße 26, Vienna-Wieden . - See: Lehmann's General Apartment Gazette . Volume 2: Directory of names. Austrian Advertising Society, Vienna 1921, ZDB -ID 2642524-5 , p. 85, center right, online .

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personal data
SURNAME Berté, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bettelheim, Heinrich; Berté, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Galgócz , Nitra county
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1924
Place of death Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna