José Armándola

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José Armándola , civil: Wilhelm August (Willi) Lautenschläger (born February 27, 1880 in Bonn am Rhein, † December 22, 1949 in Bad Imnau ) was a German composer and pianist. Other artist names of his were Edwin Haller , A. Nippon , Udo Türmer and James Wanson .

Live and act

Wilhelm August Lautenschläger worked as a pianist in Berlin since 1906. As a composer he was able to come up with a wide range of pieces of music between 1920 and 1930: these include a singspiel, several works for male choir, symphonic sketches, ballet music, overtures and piano pieces. Above all, however, he became known for light music, mainly exoticizing textures, which he published under his appropriately chosen Mediterranean-sounding pseudonym José Armándola . Thematically, his preferences for the South and the Orient stand out, which are reflected in his play titles. But he was also down to earth.

Lautenschläger's compositions were interpreted by well-known dance and salon orchestras of his time such as Marek Weber , Paul Godwin , Willy Rosé-Petösy and Ferdy Kauffman and recorded on the gramophone record. They were also soon an integral part of radio music programs, whether played live in the studio or “from the wax” (from the wax plate ).

In the history of the Bosworth music publisher, José Armándola is mentioned as a composer of film music alongside Albert W. Ketèlbey, Joseph Engleman and Montague Ewing. Armándola wrote illustration music for cinema libraries , e.g. B. for the “Rialto” series from “Roehrs Filmillustration” and the “Preis-Kino-Bibliothek” of the Heinrichshofen publishing house in Magdeburg. His "Ben Hur-Marsch", published by CM Roehr in Berlin, was also distributed on gramophone records. This and some dance pieces were also available on piano rolls for electric pianos. Lautenschläger also arranged for the composition that Austin Egen provided for the 1926 Rhine and Wine film “The Loreley”. His work as a film illustrator is also evidenced by the use of his composition The Trapezist in a compilation film, which the newsreel archive of the Swedish film industry put together in 1950 in memory of King Gustav V.

Lautenschläger died on December 22, 1949 in Bad Imnau . Of his four children, his son Willi August (1903-ca. 1961) also became a composer.

Works (selection)

grades

  • Modern ballet: suite. Composer: José Armándola. Publisher / Company: Berlin: Bosworth Musikverlag, Hamburg deliverer: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Administration: Int. Music publishers Hans Sikorski.
  • Blue pavilion: andalus. Serenade = pavilion bleu / music: José Armándola. Arr .: Heinz Gengler. Composer: Lautenschläger, Willi. Involved: Gengler, Heinz [arr.]. Publisher / Company: London, Bonn [u. a.]: Bosworth c 1987. Overall title: Hohner current. Notes: For accordion orchestras. - Score: 14 p., 30 cm; Order no. AO 2021 - title also in English. u. french Language.
  • Memory of Cairo: Suite orientale. Composer: José Armándola. Publisher / Company: Berlin: Bosworth Musikverlag. Delivery: Hamburg: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, Administration: Int. Music publishers Hans Sikorski.
  • Primavera: Argentine serenade. Composer: Willi Lautenschläger. Publisher / Company: Munich: G. Ricordi / Otto Junne Musikverlag
  • We climb the Gamselhorn: Rhinelander / Music: Willi Lautenschläger. Arr .: Harro Steffen. Text: Richard Bars. Composer: Lautenschläger, Willi. Piano, accordion edition Publisher / Company: Cologne: Polyphon-Musikverlag, c 1976.

Audio documents

  • Oh Krause! : Couplet / José Armandola. Lucie Bernardo, lecture artist with orchestra accompaniment. Stradivarius Record G 5071 (mx. 2035) (C12 5 26)
  • Ben Hur March / José Armándola. Paul Godwin with his artist ensemble. Gramophone 19 613 (mx. 82 bi) - ca.1926
  • With song and wine: I. u. Part II / José Armandola. Salon Orchestra Ferdy Kauffman. Ultraphon A 670 (mx. 15 426/27) - October 1930
  • Blue pavilion. Andalusian sérenade / José Armándola. Barnabás von Géczy with his orchestra from the "Esplanade". Parlophone B. 48 231 (mx 133 617) - October 1932

Cinema compositions

  • Agitato. For aroused dramatic scenes. Persecution. [= Roehrs film illustration, Rialto series 1] Berlin: Roehr 1927
  • Allegro brioso. For aroused and chase scenes. Berlin: Roehr
  • Ballet scene [= Preis-Kino-Bibliothek 33] Verl. Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg.
  • Ben Hur March. Berlin: Roehr
  • Furioso. For excited and riot scenes [= Roehrs film illustration, Rialto series 2] Berlin: Roehr 1927
  • Mysterioso. For conspiracy, theft, betrayal, ghost scenes. [= Roehrs film illustration, Rialto series 6] Berlin: Roehr 192
  • Storm music. [= Roehrs film illustration, Rialto series 4] Berlin: Roehr 1927

Works and sound documents of his son Willi August

  • Bright autumn. Berlin: Ries & Erler, 1936.
  • Pussta tango for jazz orchestra. Berlin: Meisel, 1939.
  • Rosita Pepita for jazz orchestra. Berlin: Boccaccio, 1939.
  • Bright summer. Berlin: Ries & Erler, 1939.
  • One night in Palermo ...: Lied u. Tango / T .: WA Lautenschläger. Composer: Lautenschläger, Willi AF Ges. M. Klav. m. Bez. Publisher / Company: Berlin: Florida-Musikverl. [1952] 4 pages; 4º
  • One night in Palermo: Tango / Willi A. Lautenschläger. Heinz Huppertz with his large dance tournament orchestra and Hammond organ. Odeon O-28 094 (mx. PBe 14 302-1) - April 1951

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Hans Erdmann, Giuseppe Becce: General. Handbook of film music. With the collaboration of Ludwig Brav: Berlin, Schlesinger'sche book and music store.
    • Vol. 1 Music and Film: Directories, 1927. 155 p. In 4º.
    • Vol. 2 Thematic Scale Register, 1927. 266 p. In 4º.
  • Erich H. Müller: German Musicians Lexicon, Dresden, 1929. [contains a detailed overview of the classical works composed up to 1929]
  • Mueller von Azow, Erich Hermann / Mueller von Azow, Hedwig: Kuerschner's German Musicians Calendar 1954. Second edition of the German Musicians Lexicon, publisher: Hedwig and EH Mueller von Azow. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1954, p. 1661. [also contains information about the life and work of his son Willi August]
  • Rosner, Helmut / Bulling, Burchard / Frank, Paul / Noetzel, Florian: Concise Tonkuenstler Lexikon. Continued by Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1974. Part two: additions and expansions since 1937. [incorrectly states Berlin as the place of death]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Lautenschläger svensk-filmdatabas
  2. ↑ cf. music sack [1]
  3. ↑ Compare the authority record in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ cf. three sheet music titles (Maja, Shimmy Foxtrot; Tamara, Shimmy Foxtrot; Hawaiian Memories, Waltz) from the Roehr publishing house in Berlin, pictured at [2]
  5. ↑ cf. Titles such as Oriental, Oriental Fox Trot, Oriental Scene, Suite Orientale, In the Land of the Pyramids - Andalusian Serenade, Argentine Serenade, One Night in Palermo, Gondolier etc.
  6. ↑ cf. Pieces like "Mit Lute und Fiedel" and "Bei Lied und Wein" or the Rhinelander "We climb the Gamselhorn".
  7. ↑ so the radio people used to say when records were broadcast; see. the recordings of Lautenschläger's pieces on records from the Vox company, from whose building the first radio programs were broadcast in 1923.
  8. ↑ Bosworth's Englische Film-Musik, Vol. 1–3, the compositions In a fairy realm , Phantom , Three fanciful etchings and the film suite Scenes of the cinema , cf. Birett pp. 48-49
  9. ↑ Bosworth's international cinema orchestra, Vol. 3–7, cf. Birett p. 25
  10. ↑ Bosworth's international cinema orchestra, vol. 10, cf. Birett p. 26
  11. ↑ From 1920 the silent film had become enormously popular ... The music composed for background music was played live to the film in the cinemas. The first film music composer was Albert W. Ketèlbey, who started a series of film scores with Bosworth in 1924 with his “Film Suite”. The arrangement of this and most of the other film scores was designed in such a way that it could be played by the smallest ensembles (trio or just piano alone) up to the largest ensembles. This ensured the possibility of dissemination in cinemas with a small capacity and only one pianist up to the large movie theaters with large orchestras. In addition to Ketèlbey, J. Engleman, M. Ewing and José Armandola were also active as film music composers. The time of film music did not last long, however, because the first sound films came out around 1929 and the publishing house initially lost an important source of income ... [3]
  12. ^ Thematically arranged albums with silent film music were released by most of the larger music publishers after 1920 due to the increased demand, cf. P. 15–16 at Birett on Lautenschläger's contributions for the Roehr publishers in Berlin and Heinrichshofen in Magdeburg, from "Agitato, for excited dramatic scenes" to "Last Spring of Love: Lyrical Scene" to "Battle Music" (cf. recording with a Motion Picture Orchestra from April 16, 1929 at Victor Discography [4] ) and the gallop "Sieg und Platz" cover all possible cinematic mood values; Of course, "Oriental" should not be missing here either.
  13. ↑ cf. Recording on gramophone 19 613 (mx. 82 bi) from 1926 with Paul Godwin, who also recorded the title as "Joan Florescu" on Polyphon 3-27 727 (mx. 171 bh); the (still silent) monumental film by Fred Niblo , on which the composition was based, was made in America in 1925.
  14. ↑ cf. Specimens from the Leipzig company Hupfeld with said Ben Hur march and the oriental fox trot ODALIK, and from EMPECO with the GONDOLIERE Tango.
  15. ↑ Direction Wolfgang Neff, cinema music by Felix Bartsch. Censorship test March 9, 1927 [5]
  16. ↑ The film song “I dreamed of the Rhine tonight”, cf. Birett p. 31, quickly became a hit and appeared on numerous records, e. B. on Artiphon 2639 (C19527) I dreamed of the Rhine last night. Song from the great film "The Loreley" (A. Egen, text by F. Rotter), more cf. [6] : I dreamed of the Rhine last night (The Lorelei) (Austin Egen - Text: Fritz Rotter) Franz Baumann, with violin and piano. Odeon O-2082 (Be 5578). I dreamed of the Rhine last night (Die Lorelei) (Austin Egen - Text: Fritz Rotter) Harry Steier, with orchestral accompaniment. Beka B. 6103 (mx. 33 704). I dreamed of the Rhine last night (Die Lorelei) (Austin Egen - Text: Fritz Rotter) Franz Völker, with orchestral accompaniment. Conductor: Joh. Heidenreich. Grammophon 21 044 / B. 42 541, open. 1927, and [7] The Loreley (I dreamed of the Rhine tonight), song. M: Austin Egen / T: Fritz Rotter. Franz Baumann, tenor, with piano accompaniment. Tri-Ergon TE 1060-B (mx. 341) (NE 02/1928) (K 1929) (K 1930)
  17. ↑ “Konung Gustaf V in memoriam” (1950) En bildkavalkad ur Svensk Filmindustri Journalarkiv [8]
  18. ↑ Bad Imnau is the only health resort in the Zollernalb district and is located in the northern tip of the city in the Eyachtal.
  19. ↑ cf. Müller: German Musicians Lexicon, 1929.
  20. ↑ after: Birett pp. 15-16
personal data
SURNAME Armándola, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lautenschläger, Wilhelm August (real name); Lautenschläger, Willi; Haller, Erwin (pseudonym); Nippon, A. (pseudonym); Türmer, Udo (pseudonym); Wanson, James (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1949
Place of death Bad Imnau