Heinz Sandauer

Bust of Heinz Sandauer in the Schubertpark Währing , Vienna

Heinz Sandauer (born January 9, 1911 in Vienna , † August 5, 1979 in Vienna) was an Austrian conductor , composer and writer .

Life

Heinz Sandauer studied at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts . His composition teacher was the Austrian composer and music teacher Professor Joseph Marx , from whom he later arranged several pieces of music, such as the New Year's Hymn for mixed choir, organ and orchestra from 1914. Sandauer was already arranging for such famous composers as Franz Lehár in the 1920s , Emmerich Kálmán and Robert Stolz . With his own ensemble he soon recorded numerous pieces of music on shellac records (sometimes under a fantasy name, such as Harry's dance orchestra ). The pop singers of the time, such as Austin Egen , Max Hansen , Gloria Astor and child star Evi Bodo , were his companions.

As a composer, Heinz Sandauer was primarily active in the film business. Between 1936 and 1958 he created the film music for around 30 German films. But concert music such as a concerto in C major for drum and orchestra , piano solos and ballet music are also part of his oeuvre - as are numerous Viennese songs and hits.

Heinz Sandauer's relationship with Austrian radio began in the 1920s. Initially he worked for Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG), the first Austrian radio broadcaster. In 1937 he was promoted to director of the Vienna Radio Orchestra. The broadcasting career continued even after the Second World War. So he initially worked for the Red-White-Red station of the American occupation forces, and later also for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). He achieved great success in the 1970s with the Kleiner Wiener Rundfunkorchester and the weekly live broadcast "Im Konzertkaffee" from the AEZ in Vienna. Sandauer had also discovered the famous Viennese emcee Heinz Conrads .

In 1963, Heinz Sandauer was appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts (as the former Vienna Academy was now called). He taught popular music and jazz. As a music teacher, he also appeared in book form to the public: He wrote the work The Jazz Pianist. The way to modern piano playing (1950) and the manual of practical instrumentation for large orchestras, wind music and jazz orchestras (1965).

Heinz Sandauer had another area of ​​interest, namely astrology . In addition to an astrology guide for everyone , he wrote (together with Nathalie Sandauer) twelve astrological zodiac guides (one for each zodiac sign) in the 1970s. In 1978 the book History, Directed by the Stars followed . In this Astrological Analysis of the West (subtitle), he dealt with Adolf Hitler's rise and fall on several pages . With Hitler's star constellation, Sandauer not only justifies his character, but also his effect and his actions. Example: "Pluto and Neptune show this man as a seducer with magical powers, a violent mixture of enthusiasm and deception, to which not only the environment, but himself ultimately succumbed."

In Vienna's Schubertpark (18th district) there is a bust in memory of Prof. Heinz Sandauer.

Compositions (selection)

• Outside in Salmannsdorf there is a little house by the brook , Wienerlied (text: H. Sobotka), 1942
• Modern gypsies , slow waltz song (text by Erich Meder), 1944
• A call goes through the night , Song (text by Erich Meder), 1944
• Francis of Assisi, my patron saint , Wienerlied and Slowfox (text: Josaef Petrak), 1946
• On the white market at Limpopo, A Dark Story , Fox (Text: Erich Meder), 1946
• Mahatma, Mahatma, ma hat ma recently, Das indische Wienerlied (text by Erich Meder), 1947
• I need money! , Viennese marching song (text by Erich Meder), 1947
• Today I am writing my mother a love letter , song and slow Fox (text: Otto Hanns Dangel), 1948
• There is a house by the blue lake , song and slowfox (text: Rudolf Berdach), 1949
• My heart calls home , slow intermezzo to an old melody (text: Rudolf Berdach and Hans Werner), 1951
• I love climbing the mountains , Lied and Jodelfox, 1951
• Two people in love under the house gate , Lied and Slowfox (Text: Josef Petrak), 1952
• I would like to give you an alarm clock (Das Weckerelied), Fox (Text: Ernest Ermad), 1952
• A cow stands at the edge of the meadow (by Karl Farkas), Lied and Fox, 1952
• Only a woman who already knows love , Slowfox (Text: Karl Farkas), 1954
• Holleschau-Polka , Polka (Text: Karl Farkas), 1954
• Oh those legs , foxtrot, 1957
• Darling don't be so kind to me! , Lied and Slowfox, 1957
• The stars dance with happiness , song and slow waltz, 1958
• Why should it be over at 50? , Wiener-Lied 1966
• If one can forget love like an umbrella
• An earthworm like that had it good in 1957
• Apres Valse , concertante composition for orchestra
• Tanzendes Kinderland (Potpourri) may still be in the archive at ORF
• Whiskey Soda , Foxtrot, (Sandauer's favorite song), overall title: memories of his time , title: Between 5 (five) and 6 (six) with Heinz Sandauer, interpreter: Heinz Sandauer , piano, 1953; 1981

Discography

• 5x3 = 15 colorful minutes. Heinz Sandauer (piano) and his rhythmics. EP, Columbia n.d. [33 VP 805]
• Popular melodies . Composer: Robert Stolz. Heinz Sandauer: piano. CD, Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1997
• Heinz Sandauer plays melodies by Franz Lehár and the Strauss dynasty . CD, Preiser / Naxos, Vienna 1999
• Bound hands (exclusive radio recordings 1955–1970), u. a. with Zarah Leander and the Kleiner Wiener Rundfunkorchester, conductor Heinz Sandauer, CD, Koch International 1999
• Ralph Benatzky: Axel at heaven's door . (Direction Heinz Sandauer), CD, Walhall-Eternity / Gebhardt Musikvertrieb, Dusslingen 2011

Filmography (selection)

• 1936: Julika (Director: Géza von Bolváry )
• 1937: The Man You Talk About (Director: EW Emo )
• 1937: Inheritance of millions (Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt )
• 1939: Anton the Last (Director: EW Emo)
• 1950: Cordula
• 1951: When a Viennese woman dances a waltz (Director: Sándor Szlatinay )
• 1952: The Imaginary Sick - (Director: Hans H. König )
• 1952: Shame on you, Brigitte (later: We'll rock the child ) (Director: EW Emo)
• 1953: The Arena of Death (Director: Kurt Meisel )
• 1957: How nice that you exist (Director: Thomas Engel )
• 1957: The Unexcused Hour (Direction: Willi Forst )
• 1957: Love begins with roses (Director: Peter Hamel )
• 1957: Family Schimek (Direction: Georg Jacoby )
• 1958: Sebastian Kneipp (Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner )

bibliography

• The jazz pianist. The way to modern piano playing; a guide with 114 examples , Hohner, Trossingen / Württemberg 1951
• Handbook of practical instrumentation for large orchestras, wind music and jazz orchestras , Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1965
• Astrology for everyone , Kirsch-Verlag, Vienna 1975
• Everything you always wanted to know about Aries . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Taurus . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about the twins . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about cancer . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Leo . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Virgo . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Libra . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Scorpio . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Sagittarius . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Aquarius . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Capricorn . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• Everything you always wanted to know about Scorpio . By Heinz and Nathalie Sandauer, Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1977
• History guided by the stars. An astrological analysis of the occident , Prisma, Gütersloh 1978

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Sandauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinz Sandauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heinz Sandauer at The Remington Site in English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see: www.soundfoundation.org/rem/rempaulee.html
2. ↑ Keyword Heinz Sandauer, in: austria-lexikon.at (Austrian Personal Lexicon of the First and Second Republic, by Isabel Ackert and Friedrich Weissensteiner, 1992)
3. ↑ Heinz Conrads at Das Wienerlied.at ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. 
4. ↑ Heinz Sandauer: History, guided by the stars. An astrological analysis of the West. Prisma-Verlag, Gütersloh 1978, p. 255.
5. ^ Whiskey-Soda , Heinz Sandauer
6. ↑ Popular melodies , Robert Stolz, piano Heinz Sandauer