Carl de Groof

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Carl de Groof , actually Karl Krof (born December 3, 1923 in Vienna , † January 18, 2007 in Javea , Spain ) was an Austrian composer , film composer and orchestra conductor .

Life

De Groof began his career shortly after the end of World War II. In the following years he worked as an orchestral musician, lyricist for composers such as Hans Lang , Kapellmeister (from 1946, in the Vienna Hofburg ) and conductor of the Vienna Boys' Choir . In 1953 he founded the RAVAG Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, which later became the Austrian Radio Dance Orchestra . In the same year he performed with his own orchestra in the Kästner film Pünktchen und Anton .

Thereupon de Groof was brought in for the background music and the arrangement of Helmut Käutner's legendary partisan and anti-war film The Last Bridge . De Groof remained true to the medium of film / television until the late 1960s and composed the music for a number of Austrian and German entertainment films by well-known directors such as Georg Tressler , Rolf Thiele and Rudolf Jugert . His career ended in 1969 with the theme song for the television series The Old Judge with Paul Hörbiger . De Groof was also known to a wide audience in Austria as a long-time musical accompanist of Heinz Conrads , in his Sunday morning show What's new? he also played the piano. With his own orchestra, Carl de Groof also recorded a number of records with Viennese songs and Heurigen music , as well as numerous hits with the then very famous Egyptian singer Samira Soliman.

The illness of multiple sclerosis forced the end of composing activity at the beginning of the 1970s. Over the course of the same decade, Carl de Groof retreated into private life in Spain, where he spent the rest of his life in the hope that the sunny climate would slow the progression of his disease.

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SURNAME Groof, Carl de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krof, Karl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, film composer, arranger and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2007
Place of death Javea , Spain