Josef Weiß (composer)

Josef Weiss , also Josef Weiss (* 1864 in Košice ; † 1945 ) was a pianist and composer .

Life

Weiss was a student of Franz Liszt and Robert Volkmann . In 1911 he gave a piano concerto in the Perzynasaal in Schwerin for Liszt's 100th birthday . He lived in Berlin for a long time. In 1913 he was one of the first composers (probably first Camille Saint-Saëns with L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise , directed by André Calmette, 1908) to write an original score for the silent film The Student of Prague . At the film premiere in Berlin's Mozart Hall on Nollendorfplatz, he personally sat at the piano.

literature

The Redende Künste: Leipzig Concert Hall: magazine for music and literature with special consideration of Leipzig's musical life. Volume 3. Verlag Wild, 1897, p. 1001 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
Agata Schindler: Košičan Josef Weiss - neznámy žiak Franza Liszta (part 1). In: Hudobný život, Vol. XLVI, No. 1–2, 2014, pp. 30–32 and No. 3, 2014, pp. 22–24.

Web links

Joseph White in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Josef Weiß at Bach Cantatas (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Signals for the musical world. Volume 69. Verlag von Bartholf Senff, Berlin 1911, p. 1493 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ ^a ^b A short history of the film music ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 26. (PDF; 136 kB) on dpunkt.de @1@ 2

↑ Holger Jörg: The legendary and fairytale-like canvas: narrative material, motifs and narrative structures of popular prose in “classic” German silent film (1910–1930). Verlag Pro Universitate, Sinzheim 1994, ISBN 3-930747-11-1 , p. 73 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	White, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weiss, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Košice
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: 1945

[1] Signals for the musical world. Volume 69. Verlag von Bartholf Senff, Berlin 1911, p. 1493 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[filmmus-2] A short history of the film music ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 26. (PDF; 136 kB) on dpunkt.de @1@ 2

[3] Holger Jörg: The legendary and fairytale-like canvas: narrative material, motifs and narrative structures of popular prose in “classic” German silent film (1910–1930). Verlag Pro Universitate, Sinzheim 1994, ISBN 3-930747-11-1 , p. 73 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).