Ignaz Michael Welleminsky

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Ignaz Michael Welleminsky (* 7. December 1882 in Prague , † 17th July 1942 in Poland Spring, Maine , USA; originally Weleminsky ) was an Austrian lyricists of hits and librettist of opera , operettas , musical comedies . Because of his Jewish descent, he was not allowed to be named by the publisher in the 1930s as co-author of the libretto for the opera Aladin . He then emigrated to the USA.

Works

(Compiled from the catalogs of the music collection of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Library ; as of April 2009)

Stage works

  • 1913: Glockenspiel ( Carillon ). Comic opera in one act. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden . Music: Jan Brandts-Buys .
  • 1914: La Vallière . Opera in five pictures. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music by Max von Oberleithner . Premiere: January 26th 1918, Volksoper Vienna .
  • 1916: The Iron Savior . Opera in three acts. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Max von Oberleithner. Premiere : January 20, 1917, Volksoper Vienna.
  • 1916: The tailors from Schönau . Comic opera in three acts. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Jan Brandts-Buys. Premiere: February 20, 1917, Hof-Operntheater .
  • 1917: Lenz and love (Original: Tavasz és szerelem ). Singspiel in a prelude and two acts. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music based on melodies by Franz Schubert by Heinrich Berté .
  • 1918: The Conqueror . Opera in three acts. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Jan Brandts-Buys.
  • 1918: Li-I-Lan . A Chinese love legend in five pictures. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Wolfgang von Bartels.
  • 1919: Cecilia . Opera in three acts. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Max von Oberleithner . Premiere : 1919, Hamburg.
  • 1919: Micarême ( end of Carnival ). Opera in one act. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Jan Brandts-Buys.
  • 1920: The Heidentor . Opera in one act and one interlude. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Max von Oberleithner.
  • 1920: Apaches . Operetta in three acts. Text together with the composer. Music: Ralph Benatzky . Premiere: December 20, 1920, Apollotheater .
  • 1920: The Heidentor . Opera in one act. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Max von Oberleithner. Premiere: 1920, Vienna.
  • 1920: La Tarantelle de la Mort ( Death Tarantella ). Mimodrama in seven scenes. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Julius Bittner .
  • 1922: The man in the moon . A whimsical game for music in three acts. Music: Jan Brandts-Buys.
  • 1922: Fredigundis . Opera in three acts based on Felix Dahn . Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Franz Schmidt . Premiere: March 8, 1924, Vienna State Opera .
  • 1924: When the elder blossoms . Operetta in three acts. Text together with the composer. Music: Paul Knepler . Premiere: July 1st, 1924, Metropoltheater, Vienna.
  • 1927: The bells of Paris . Operetta in three acts. Text jointly Paul Knepler. Music: Richard Fall . Premiere: October 14, 1927, Carltheater .
  • 1929: Belshazzar . Opera in one act. Text together with Paul Knepler. Music: Hans E. Peró.
  • 1929: lights of life . Opera in one act. Text together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Hans E. Peró.
  • 1930: Two hearts in three-four time ( The Lost Waltz ). Operetta in three acts (8 pictures). Based on the sound film of the same name by Walter Reisch and Franz Schulz . Text together with Paul Knepler. Music: Robert Stolz .
  • 1931: The Dubarry . Operetta in nine pictures. Text together with Paul Knepler. Music based on Carl Millöcker by Theo Mackeben . Premiere: Berlin August 14, 1931
  • 1933: The alluring flame . Romantic Singspiel in eight pictures. Text together with Paul Knepler. Music: Eduard Künneke .
  • 1934: Flaming Land ( Fanal ). Opera in three acts. Text together with Oscar Ritter with free use of the Rhenish saga " Der Schelm von Bergen ". Music: Kurt Atterberg . Premiere: 1934 Stockholm.
  • 1941: Aladin . Opera in three acts. Text based on a fairy tale from 1001 nights together with Bruno Hardt-Warden. Music: Kurt Atterberg. Premiere: 1941 Stockholm.
  • The silver flute . Comic opera in three acts. Text together with Josef Reitler . Music: Max von Oberleithner.

Libretti not set to music

  • Dogaressa's curl . Opera in three acts. Text together with Bruno Warden.
  • Cherchez la femme . Comic opera in five pictures. Text together with Rudolf Sieczyński .
  • Treaty with France . Musical comedy from the baroque era in five pictures. Text together with Rudolf Sieczyński.

Schlager and songs

  • 1927: That cannot be the will of the Creator! Song. Text together with Paul Knepler. Music: Richard Fall.
  • 1927: Lovely Dorothee . Song. Text together with Paul Knepler. Music: Richard Fall.
  • 1929: Beloved! Song. Text together with Paul Knepler. Music: Richard Fall.

literature

  • Paul Frank, Wilhelm Altmann : Briefly summarized Tonkünstler Lexicon . Gustav Bosse, Regensburg 1936.
  • Anton Bauer: Operas and Operettas in Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna 1955.
  • Hans Erman: Winged Melodies. A treasure trove of quotes from the opera to the light muse . Horst Erdmann, Tübingen 1968, p. 346.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1461.

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personal data
SURNAME Welleminsky, Ignaz Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weleminsky, Ignaz Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lyricist and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1942
Place of death Poland Spring, Maine , ISA