Hilde Loewe-Flatter

Hilde Loewe-Flatter , originally Hilda Löwi, (* July 8, 1895 in Vienna , † April 15, 1976 in London ) was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked under the pseudonym Henry Love .

Life

Hilde Loewe was born in Vienna as the daughter of the Jewish businessman Ernst Löwi and his wife Szeréne. She completed her studies at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with distinction. Initially, Hilde Loewe worked as a pianist until she increasingly turned to piano accompaniment. One of her most important artistic connections was the collaboration with the castle actor Raoul Aslan , with whom she gave concerts and chanson evenings. It was Aslan who encouraged her to compose, which is why Loewe dedicated her first published composition, Das alten Lied, to him, which the Viennese Bohème Verlag published in 1927. This year Loewe also chose her male pseudonym Henry Love at the suggestion of her publisher . From 1928 to 1932 Henry Love composed other successful chansons and wrote some of the lyrics for them.

In 1934 Hilde Loewe married the Viennese stage designer and painter Joseph Otto Flatter, with whom she emigrated to Great Britain in the same year. After the end of the war, she received a work permit there as a repetitor, choir director and piano accompanist, and in 1947 she was finally granted British citizenship. Loewe-Flatter increasingly withdrew from concert life, except for a few appearances. Loewe-Flatter died in London in March 1976 at the age of 81.

Works

• 1927: The old song
• 1927: You cannot force me
• 1927: faded away
• 1928: Madelon! Dark as the night
• 1929: Your letter came late
• 1930: you have long forgotten me
• 1930: Don't come to me with love
• 1931: Gianitta
• 1931: I was lucky
• 1934: When the soldier has his exit
• 1935: Allow me, my lady
• 1937: The violins tell what women keep silent
• Undated: The Monte Carlo window cleaner

literature

• Brita Eckert: The old song. The German Exile Archive 1933-1945 receives the Hilde Loewe-Flatter / Henry Love estate. In: Dialogue with Libraries. Issue 2, 2006, pp. 32-36.
• Evelin Förster : The woman in the dark: authors and composers of cabaret and entertainment from 1901-1935. Edition Braus, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86228-057-5 , pp. 150–155
• Jutta Raab Hansen: Nazi persecuted musicians in England. Traces of German and Austrian refugees in British music culture. von Bockel, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-928770-69-9 .
• Monika Kornberger: Love, Henry (own Loewe, Hilde). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hilde Loewe-Flatter in the catalog of the German National Library
• The window cleaner from Monte-Carlo - an operetta by Hilde Loewe-Flatter
• Hilda Loewe / Henry Love estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library