Julius Bechstein

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Julius Bechstein , also Gyula Bechstein or Julius Beckstein (also: Beckstein) (* in the 19th century; † in the 20th century) was a composer of silent film music .

Life

Bechstein composed music for silent films around 1918/20, after having been employed as a cinema conductor in 1916. He never gave his full first name, only gave the first letter G. His Hungarian name Gyula (German: Julius) can only be recognized by a single complete information on a film. His surname is alternately given as Beckstein or Bechstein, which further obscures his identity.

He wrote the music for films by Ernst Lubitsch , Manfred Noa , Paul von Woringen and Friedrich Zelnik . He arranged music compilations and wrote film songs for the lecture in the movie theater.

His compositions were published by CM Roehr and AM Schlesinger.

Works

a) at Hofmeister, musical-literary monthly reports:

  • Beckstein, G .: Narrenlied: “It sat on the rocky slope” from the film “Lache, Narr” f. 1 singing, m. Puffs. Berlin, Roehr - Hofmeister (1919)
  • Beckstein, G .: film chants m. Puffs. Berlin, Schlesinger: The spring song. Film singing m. Pfte or harp. Berlin, Schlesinger M 1.90 n. - Hofmeister (1920)

b) in Birett, silent film music pp. 21–22 performed as Bechstein, G .:

  • Margarete: Margarete, shattered alive. Berlin: Schlesinger 14/18
  • The winner: O my happiness. Berlin: Schlesinger 14/18
  • The Spring Song: Bleaching My Curls, from Eugene Onegin . Berlin: Schlesinger 19/23
  • The dancer: If you were mine. Berlin: Schlesinger 19/23
  • Laugh, fool: It was sitting on the cliff ... Berlin: Roehr 19/23

Filmography

  • 1918 The spring song
  • 1918: the winners
  • 1918/19: confusion of love. Laugh, fool ...
  • 1919: mountain flower
  • 1919: The ladies with the emeralds
  • 1919: The journey into the blue
  • 1919: Towards happiness
  • 1919: Hotel Medusa
  • 1919: In the service of love
  • 1919: The red sarafan
  • 1919: The Dancer - I.
  • 1919: The Dancer - II
  • 1919: A great box
  • 1919: When friends become rivals
  • 1920: The gala performance of the Circus Cesare Marselli
  • 1920: The yellow grimace
  • 1920: Romeo and Juliet in the snow

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin 1970.
  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Margarete. Stuttgart: Verlag JG Cotta, 1891.
  • Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film. Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Munich: Kindler, 1956, 469 pp.
  • Felix Hollaender: The Dancer - A novel in three books (bound in one). Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, January 1918.
  • Irene Stratenwert with Hermann Simon (Ed.): Pioneers in Celluloid. Jews in the early film world. Berlin: Henschel, 2004. ISBN 3-89487-471-6 . Here pp. 29, 32, 284-287, 291, 293.
  • Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg: Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Series. Illustrated edition, Verlag Berghahn Books, 1999. ISBN 9781571811967 . Length 238 pages.
  • Lothar Prox: Perspectives on the reprocessing of silent film music, in: Silent film music yesterday and today. Edited by of the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation. Verlag Volker Spiess, Berlin 1979, pp. 9-26.
  • Katja Uhlenbrok (editor): MusikSpektakelFilm. Music theater and dance culture in German film 1922 - 1937. Munich: edition text + kritik 1998, 176 pages.
  • Michael Wedel: Schizophrenic technique, sensual happiness. Film opera, film operetta, film singing game. In: The German music film. Archeology of a genre. München, Edition Text + Critique 2007. ISBN 978-3883778358 . Pp. 69-191.
  • Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1956.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ so at Hofmeister, monthly reports
  2. ↑ at the premiere of the Messter production “Lehmanns Brautfahrt” by Robert Wiene in the Mozartsaal Berlin in November 1916 cf. Lehmanns Brautfahrt (1916) on The German Early Cinema DatabaseTemplate: GECD title / maintenance / ID is missing in Wikidata
  3. ↑ cf. “Music compilation: Julius Bechstein”, at GECD # 22764
  4. ↑ Compilations of film accompaniment music from parts of works by various composers; an example is printed in Prox, Perspektiven, pp. 18–19: the music lineup for "Titanic" by Hansheinrich Dransmann , Berlin.
  5. ↑ on the phenomenon of singing in silent film cinema cf. Wedel p. 69 f.
  6. ^ Adolf Martin Schlesinger , initially Abraham Moses Schlesinger, Berlin. Later Robert Lienau (from 1864)
personal data
SURNAME Bechstein, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bechstein, Gyula; Beckstein, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Composer of silent film music
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century