I dreamed of the Rhine tonight (song)

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I dreamed of the Rhine tonight (Die Lorelei) was a hit song that the pianist , composer and music publisher Austin Egen wrote in 1926 for Wolfgang Neff's silent Rhine and wine film Die Lorelei . Kino kapellmeister Felix Bartsch composed the illustration music for the film . The film, which is also under the opening line of the song I've been dreaming tonight from the Rhine , had as an alternative title was shown on April 27, 1927 premiere . The words were contributed by the lyricist Fritz Rotter .

The lyrics of the song I dreamed of the Rhine tonight , which “is only loosely related to the plot”, is faded in four or five times during the course of the film.

Egens' composition at the marching tempo was published in 1927 by Curt Max Roehr in Berlin's music publishing house and was adapted several times by various editors (e.g. by W. Lautenschlaeger, O. Seifert, G. Haetzschel and KH Mandt) for different purposes.

The song was also used in the James Klein revue Die Sünden der Welt , whose libretto on the subject of fashion was by Carl Bretschneider, in the Komische Oper Berlin from 1927-28 . Willi Lautenschlaeger, better known by his stage name José Armándola , arranged for Egen's composition .

The film song I dreamed of the Rhine tonight quickly became a popular hit thanks to extensive advertising by the publisher . It was played on the radio and, performed by renowned interpreters of the time, appeared on numerous gramophone records from leading manufacturers.

Sound documents (selection)

  • Derby O-629 a (mx. 629 A): I dreamed of the Rhine last night (Die Lorelei) ad the same. National film (A. Egen - F. Rotter) Orchestra with vocals
  • Swiss music house Berlin No. 534 (mx. 72): I dreamed of the Rhine last night. Song by A. Egen. "Herrengesang"
  • Grammophon 21 044 / B. 42 541: I dreamed of the Rhine tonight. Lied (Egen - Rotter) Franz Völker , Frankfurt Opera House, with orchestral accompaniment. Conductor: Joh. Heidenreich. Mech. Copyr. 1927
  • Homocord Elektro 4-2425 (M 19 463): I dreamed of the Rhine tonight, march song (M: Austin Egen / T: Fritz Rotter) Engelbert Milde , with orchestra accompaniment
  • Beka B. 6103 (mx. 33 704): I dreamed of the Rhine tonight, song from the revue “The Sins of the World” (M: Austin Egen / T: Fritz Rotter) Harry Steier , with quartet and orchestra accompaniment , Conductor Otto Dobrindt
  • Artiphon 2639 (C19527): I dreamed of the Rhine last night. Song from the revue “Die Sünden der Welt” (A.Egen, text by F.Rotter) Max Kuttner , with orchestral accompaniment. May 1927
  • Odeon O-2082 a (mx. Be 5578): I dreamed of the Rhine tonight (The Lorelei) (A. Egen, text by F. Rotter) Franz Baumann, accompaniment: piano and violin. February 1927.
  • Electrola EG 489 (mx. 8-42 031): I dreamed of the Rhine last night. Song from the great film "The Loreley" (A. Egen, text by F. Rotter) Franz Baumann , with orchestral accompaniment.
  • Tri-Ergon TE 1060-B (mx. 0341): The Loreley (I dreamed of the Rhine tonight), song (M: Austin Egen / T: Fritz Rotter). Franz Baumann, with piano accompaniment. February 1928.

The song was also produced as a "phonola" sheet music roll for electric pianos.

Illustrations

  • label Grammophon 21 044 / B 42 541
  • label Swiss music house Berlin No. 534 (mx. 72)
  • Austin Egen in the pocket album “Artists on Radio” from 1932, p. 89.

literature

  • Aitam Bar-Sagi: The Film Music Museum. Silent Films' Songs on 78RPM Records.
  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Hermann Boesch: Youth in the Weimar Republic: experienced contemporary history . Verlag Knoth, 1989, p. 311.
  • Bernd Buchner: About national and republican identity. German social democracy and the struggle for political symbols in the Weimar Republic . Dietz Verlag JHW Nachf., 2001, pp. 145, 187.
  • Karsten Lehl: There is only one German Rhine. To the Rhine song in the Weimar Republic. In: Leopold RG Decloedt, Peter Delvaux: Whose electricity? Views of the Rhine (= Duitse kroniek . Volume 51). Verlag Rodopi, 2001, ISBN 90-420-1408-3 , pp. 203-215.
  • Heinrich Lindlar: Loreley Report. Heinrich Heine and the Rhine Song Romanticism. Verlag Dohr, 1999, ISBN 3-925366-52-0 , pp. 19, 103, 106.
  • Anno Mungen, Ulrike Hartung: In the middle of life: music theater from opera to everyday performance . (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater. Volume 23). Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4184-6 .
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Volume 2: Cabaret-Operetta-Revue-Film-Exile Light music until 1945 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2015.
  • Wolfgang Stanicek: Austin Egen, Schlager composer, singer and music publisher . Dissertation . Vienna 2010. (online at: grammophon-platten.de )
  • Ulrike Traub: Theater of Nudity: On the Change in Meaning of Bare Bodies on the Stage since 1900 (= Postcolonial Studies. Volume 24). transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-1610-5 .
  • Magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk" (Ed.): "Künstler am Rundfunk" - A pocket album from the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk". Dedicated to our readers . Rothgießer & Diesing AG publishing house, Berlin 1932.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Stanicek (2010) : “Also in 1926, the marching song 'I dreamed of the Rhine tonight' with music by Austin Egen for the feature film 'Die Lorelei' (Director: Wolfgang Neff, Production: Althoff & Co., Berlin) which comes out in the spring of 1927. Maria Paudler , Paul Otto and Trude Hesterberg play the leading roles . Felix Bartsch is listed as the composer of cinema music. "
  2. ↑ See filmportal.de , IMDb
  3. ↑ So "Paimann's film lists". Wochenschrift für Lichtbild Critique, 12th year, No. 584, Vienna, June 17, 1927, p. 97. The Roehr publishing house spoke of the song as a “leitmotif”, cf. Advertisement in: "Musikalienhandel", 29th year (1927); No. 4
  4. ↑ See Stanicek (2010), chap. 6. Austin Egen in the film; 6.1. Silent movie
  5. ↑ See Birett p. 31.
  6. ↑ See Mungen, Hartung, p. 363.
  7. ↑ See label Artiphon 2639 or Beka B. 6103, on this Traub p. 138, Ploog p. 286; Hans Albers appeared in the revue as a "climber".
  8. ↑ See full-page individual advertisement by the music publisher Roehr in: "Musikalienhandel", vol. 29 (1927); No. 4 (January 28, 1927), p. 85: “We publicly propagated this effective hit in the most generous way: the 'Loreley Prize' (M 1,000) was won every night at the six-day race; Thousands sang the refrain every night of this greatest sports sensation; Tens of thousands heard the song and read the lyrics on huge banners; a big film, The Loreley, with this hit as a leitmotif, will soon be shown all over Germany, all cinema bands will play the song and slides in the film will also announce the text here. [...] "(quoted from Stanicek (2010))
  9. ↑ "In the 5th Funk Matinee broadcast from the Great Playhouse in Berlin, Franz Baumann sings two songs by Austin Egens, I fell in love with a girl on the Rhine and I dreamed of the Rhine tonight", cf. “Funk-Hour”, 5th year (1928), No. 2 (January 6, 1928), p. 37 (radio program for January 8, 1928), cited above. according to Stanicek (2010), chap. 5.2 radio
  10. ↑ From the popular pop singer Franz Baumann to the folk song interpreter Harry Steier, the chansonnier Engelbert Milde and the ubiquitous operetta tenor Max Kuttner to the opera singer Franz Völker, almost everyone is represented.
  11. ↑ Listen to it on youtube.com
  12. ↑ Listen to it on youtube.com
  13. ↑ Ludwig Hupfeld AG , Phonola # 10543 I dreamed of the Rhine tonight [sic!], Marching song from: 'The Loreley', cf. Stanicek (2010)