Ludolf Waldmann

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Ludolph Waldmann, ca.1897

August Eduard Gustav Ludolph Waldmann , better known as Ludolf Waldmann (* 30 June 1840 Hanover ; † 7. February 1919 in Berlin ) was a German singer , theater director , actor , poet and composer in the field of popular music .

Life

He was versatile as an actor, singer and theater director. At the turn of the century he was well known as the composer of numerous popular and patriotic songs, many of which he wrote himself. Some of his songs, such as Fischerin du kleine ( The little fisher maid ) or Who knows if we ever meet again ( Who knows, when we ever meet again ) were also released in the USA in the 1880s. The best known was the hit song published in 1905 with a text by Nobel Prize laureate Paul Heyse , my beautiful Sorrento , which was recorded by Richard Tauber in 1929 .

Waldmann owned his own publishing house in Berlin. He won several lawsuits against operators of mechanical musical instruments, the results of which he published in 1889.

Ludolf Waldmann died in Berlin in 1919 at the age of 78. His grave in the old churchyard of the Twelve Apostles congregation in Berlin-Schöneberg has been preserved.

Compositions

Operettas

  • incognito
  • The Ulanenbraut , (T: Julius Gaspary) Hamburg 1871

Songs

  • Oh, we poor friars , op.19
  • To you Silesians, let's sing
  • Am a lively dancer , op.35
  • Am a traveling companion
  • Bismarck Hymn , op.40
  • There are my stars , op.20
  • The golden Mainz on the Rhine , op.27
  • The Human Heart , op.29, text: Mary B.
  • The forest man drives into the wood
  • Imagine my darling what I saw in a dream
  • The butterfly , op.37
  • Germans handshake now you brothers (march song)
  • The Tears of Heaven , op. 32, T. Friedrich Rückert
  • The pearl in the German Empire , op.33
  • The zither beckons the violin sounds
  • A thundering cheer for wine , op.30
  • A tailor's song , op.25
  • Once upon a time there was a fisherwoman
  • A happy wanderer drew the wide world
  • Fisherwoman, you little one (1888)
  • Fisherwoman you big
  • Hoch Prinz Carneval , op.34
  • High from the battlements of my castle , op.31
  • I'm in the parental home , op.22
  • I wish you were a flower , op.36
  • I would like to move into the distance , op. 26, T. Max von Schenkendorf
  • Paralyzes the heaviest of all chains
  • Luther's verdict: Who does not love wine, women and song , op.28
  • My Hamburg on the Elbe , op.23
  • My love's blue eyes , op.21
  • Isn't it true when I've died , op.16
  • Mermaid song , op.18
  • Now open your doors
  • O be my lovebirds (1881)
  • Greetings, my beautiful Sorrento T .: Paul Heyse (1905)
  • Just like you! op. 47, edited in 1885 by Arnold Schönberg
  • I sit in happy drinking circles (1880)
  • Was once a little fisher girl
  • Who knows if we'll see each other again , op.5 (1885)
  • A proud word resounds like blaring fanfares
  • How could I forget you , op. 24, T. August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
  • Lullaby , op.17

Instrumental music

Other publications

  • Ludolf Waldmann's lawsuits won against the manufacturers of "mechanical musical instruments": solution of a very important social question ... , 32 p. Berlin 1889

Awards

In 1919 Waldmannstrasse in Berlin was named after him

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Saxony State Archives, Stade location (ed.): Lower Saxony, Elbe-Weser-Dreieck, Germany, Protestant church records, 1574-1945 ( online ) .
  2. ^ Hans Brennert: Berlinische Rhapsodien. Salzwasser, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-2386-0 , p. 114 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 757.
personal data
SURNAME Waldmann, Ludolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, actor and theater director and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1919
Place of death Berlin