Jara Beneš

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Jara Beneš (also Benes , actually Jaroslav, born June 5, 1897 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † April 10, 1949 in Vienna ; pseudonym Peter Brandt ) was a Czech composer who was particularly successful with operettas, film music and hits.

Photo by Max Fenichel (around 1930)

Life

After graduating from high school, Beneš studied at the conservatory in his hometown . The most important teacher for him was Vítězslav Novák . Even as a young man he was enthusiastic about the songs, ballets and operettas of his Bohemian compatriot Oskar Nedbal, 23 years his senior . But the musical stage works by Leo Falls also had a great appeal. While Beneš was working as a theater conductor in Prague, he published his first compositions. He was so successful with it that he soon gave up his engagement at the theater and was able to live as a freelance composer. After a stopover in Berlin , he moved to Vienna in the 1930s, where most of his operettas were premiered from then on. He achieved the greatest success with his work Auf dergrün Wiese , which was staged for the first time on October 9, 1936 in the Vienna Volksoper . The still young Austrian sound film gave him another pillar.

Beneš 'music is imaginative and pulsed with lively Slavic dance elements. The composer died after a short serious illness at the age of 52 in Vienna and was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 35, number 24C). In 1964 the Danube metropolis named a street after him in the Floridsdorf district in his memory ( Jara-Benes-Gasse ).

Nevertheless, both he as a composer and his works are largely forgotten today.

Beneš had been a member of the Equality Lodge since 1948 .

Works

Operettas

Film music

  • The False Field Marshal (1930)
  • The Fairground (1930)
  • A friend as cute as you (1931)
  • The Witcher (1932)
  • Polenblut (1934, additional music for the film adaptation of the operetta of the same name by Oskar Nedbal)
  • The reason for divorce (1937)
  • Address unknown (1938)

Bat

literature

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Jara-Benes-Gasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 20th f .
personal data
SURNAME Beneš, Jara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benes, Jara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1949
Place of death Vienna