Karl Alfredy

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Karl Alfredy (born January 22, 1877 in Vienna ; † between December 1, 1944 and January 6, 1945 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ; bourgeois Alfred Kohn ) was a conductor and composer . Other pseudonyms were Carl Alfredy, Charles Alfredy and C. Alfredy.

Live and act

Alfredy was of Jewish descent. News about him after 1935 (a photograph of him from a Czech radio newspaper has been preserved from that year) is missing, as is the exact date of his death. According to an entry in the death register of the Bad Arolsen special registry office on January 15, 1952, Alfredy died between December 1, 1944 and January 6, 1945 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Alfredy wrote light music in different directions, e.g. B. also for advertising. For the company Bergmann & Co. in Radebeul , Dresden u. Zurich, manufacturer of the “Hobby Horse” soap, he composed the Rhinelander Mein Hobby Horse , for the company Teekanne the Java song I let myself be too happy (Tempo di Mazurka, text and music by Karl Alfredy). For the Emil Seelig chicory factory in Heilbronn am Neckar, he wrote the 'original song' Der Beste Trunk - that was, of course, “Seeligs Kornkaffee ”.

As Charles Alfredy , he wrote the music for the lecturer Robert Steidl for his couplet Whoever Lifts Your Legs Fastest , which he left behind in 1915/16 with piano accompaniment on gramophone 522 637 (Mat. No. 18 386 L). Claire Waldoff sang his couplet girl when the bad boys lure in the 1921/22 season, which is preserved on gramophone record Gr 14 168 (mat. No. 1259 ar).

As Charles Alfredy , he also composed the music for the operetta “Goldener Leichtsinn” by Josef von Koblinski in 1912.

Even in the early days of the medium, Alfredy composed for the film. Already in 1906 Alfredy had supplied the music ( Meißner porcelain. Salon- Gavotte by C. Alfredi . Text by Leo Herzberg) for Oskar Messter's tone picture Meißner porcelain with Rosa and Henny Porten . Father Franz Porten directed. The premiere was on January 1, 1906.

There is a Pola Negri- Boston from him from around 1919/20, when this actress from Poland began to appear in German silent films. It is on a record of the Lindström concern, brand Parlophon (Parl. P.1071 (Matr. Nr. 2-2589): Pola Negri - Boston (Karl Alfredy): Orchester Marek Weber ). The recording is dated February 16, 1920. Another, poss. earlier [c.1918?] recording exists on the label Stern-Platte No. 5296.

Alfredy wrote the music for the only silent film operetta made in Germany in 1919 according to the Lloyd Lachmann process with the title Das Kaviarmäuschen , director: Gerhard Dammann , book: Dr. Bruno Decker et al. Karl Alfredy, Production: Lloyd-Film GmbH Berlin. The operetta was premiered in April 1919. It was a so-called sing film , in which the performance was accompanied live , i.e. by living singers and an orchestra with living musicians, in the cinema. The morning edition of the Vossische Zeitung of March 25, 1919 wrote on page 6: “The film operetta by Dr. Bruno Decker and Karl Alfredy Das Kaviarmäuschen is a more than usual operetta in which the actors open their mouths up on the screen and other people sing in the orchestra below for no apparent reason. In addition, attempts are being made to take advantage of the freedom from censorship by allowing one to watch girls changing their clothes a little longer than before. "

The title hit is preserved on the record POLYPHON 15 613 (27 590) (60 ar) from 1919: Waltz song Du mein sweetes Caviarmäuschen by Karl Alfredy: Orchestra with song.

Lloyd-Lachmann method

The Lloyd-Lachmann process is named after Julius Lachmann, the head of the Lloyd-Film-Gesellschaft and inventor of the system for synchronizing living musicians and singers in the cinema. A diamond-shaped luminous body, set up in the backdrop of the movie theater, signaled the theater music director's operations by means of flashes of light.

Radio hits

When, after the introduction of public entertainment broadcasting in Germany, the Telefunken company brought an inexpensive simple receiver onto the market in 1927, Alfredy composed the advertising hit Arcolette to the melody of Walter Kollo , which was called like the device: “Arcolette”. The Chapel of Bernard Ette took him in April 1927 at Vox in Berlin; The tenor Max Kuttner sang Alfredy's text .

Works

  • Karl Alfredy; Leo Herzberg: Meissen porcelain. Original couplers at Gavott's tempo. 4 pages. Dietrich, Leipzig around 1900.
  • C. [arl] Alfredy: My hobby horse. Rhinelander for medium voices. Dedicated to Bergmann & Co, Radebeul - Dresden, Zurich. 2 pages. Music publishing house Metropol, Berlin around 1905.
  • C. Alfredy: Winter Magic - Half Stone Waltz. for FC Heye Braunkohlenwerke, Annahütte (around 1910)
  • C. Alfredy: Whoever has no love has no heart. Sung in the Folies Caprice Theater, Berlin by Miss Anny Wilkens-Schulhoff (approx. 1910)
  • Charles Alfredy: The best drink . Original song. Dedicated to the company Emil Seelig AG Heilbronn a. N., 3 pp., Fol. : Musik Verlag Metropol [approx. 1910].
  • Karl Alfredy (text and music): I love to let myself be. Java song for teapot, 2 sheet music for piano and vocals, Musik Verlag Metropol, Charlottenburg II o. J. (around 1920).
  • Charles Alfredy; Robert Steidl: Who lifts his legs the fastest. pf: Bruno Seidler-Winkler - Gramo / Zono 522 637 (mx. 18386 l) - Berlin, 1915/1916 (Franz Hampe)
  • Karl Alfredy: When bad boys lure. Polyphonic orchestra with vocals. Polyphon Record 30 941 / 2-27536 (die number 1456 ar)

More numbers

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent Film Music: Material Collection. Berlin: Deutsche Kinemathek, 1970.
  • Hans Franke: History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn, issue 11. Heilbronn 1963.
  • Christoph Wahl: The Speaking of Films: About Verbal Language in Feature Films. Ruhr University Bochum: Phil. Diss 2003.
  • Michael Wedel: The German music film. Archeology of a genre 1914 - 1945. Edition text and criticism. May 2007.
  • Eva Weissweiler: Eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences . Dittrich Verlag, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-920862-25-2 .

Web links

Once a month (TuM: Carl Alfredy) Verlag Wilhelm Gebauer, Hospitalstrasse, 30 - Leipzig (1921) –– I let myself be too happy (Teapot Javalied) (TuM: Carl Alfredy) Musikverlag Metropol (- Berlin) –– Torpedo hubs -Marsch (TuM: Carl Alfredy) Musikverlag Metropol (- Berlin) –– The Clock is playing (Music: Pierre Blaauw, Lyrics: Carl Alfredy) Verlag CM Roehr, Mauerstrasse, 76 - Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bad Arolsen special registry office, camp registry offices AZ (section I), death register, 1952, entry no.50
  2. ↑ Stengel-Gerigk 1943, pp. 18, 159, and Weissweiler, Eva: Ausgemerzt. The 'Lexicon of Jews in Music' and its murderous consequences . Dittrich Verlag eK October 1999. 444 pages, cardboard book. ISBN 3-920862-25-2
  3. ↑ cf. Heilbronn City Archives E002-776 Letterhead from Emil Seelig; 1872 ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ cf. on this 'coffee tradition' [1] and on the company's founder 'Contributions to Jewish history in Heilbronn' [2]
  5. ↑ cf. “Golden levity”, operetta by Josef von Koblinski. Music by Charles Alfredy. Berlin: Roland Deutsche Verlagsges., 1912. Cf. worldcat.org
  6. ↑ a b c d specimen copies of the two sheet music for teapot and hobby horse soap as well as the records with the Caviar Mouse and the Pola Negri-Boston are in the Dr. Meyer, Nuremberg.
  7. ↑ Birett p. 10 and Wedel p. 94f., Wahl, Das Sprechen der Films , p. 95.
  8. ↑ Vox 8439E (mx. 1611 BB), attach. April 1927; listen on youtube
  9. ↑ cf. Chr. Zwarg, Truesound Transfers TT 2441 [3] , track 20
  10. ↑ cf. Music archive DNB [4]
personal data
SURNAME Alfredy, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfredy, Carl; Alfredy, Charles; Alfredy, C .; Kohn, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Kapellmeister and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1944 or 1945
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp