Ludwig Gothov-Grünecke

Ludwig Gothov-Grünecke (born March 6, 1847 in Pest , † October 17, 1921 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and conductor who composed the music for numerous stage works at the Vienna Volkstheater.

Life

Ludwig Gothov-Grünecke initially worked in the Banat town of Werschitz , which, like his native Pest, belonged to Austria-Hungary . There he was a member of the Ottep Operetta Society and choirmaster of the men's choir. On August 1, 1869, he became the orchestra conductor of Karl Zeh's theater company . At this time Gothov-Grüneke composed what is believed to be his first stage work with the opera Eduard und Kunigunde , which was premiered by the men's choir in the same year.

Around 1875 Ludwig Gothov-Grünecke went to Vienna and set primarily humorous stage works such as operettas , singspiele or antics , which were performed on many Viennese theaters. Among other things, his 46 stage music is performed at the Jantsch , Carl , Fürst , Josefstädter , Kaiser Jubilee , Raimund and Ringtheaters as well as at the Ronacher . In addition, from 1880 he worked for three years at the Josefstädter- und Jantschtheater as Kapellmeister. In that year he also celebrated his greatest success with the burlesque Ein Böhm ' written by Bruno Zappert and Max von Weinzierl in America . Since the first performance in 1880 in the Theater in der Josefstadt, the play has been performed over 500 times on many stages in Vienna.

In later years he moved to Berlin and from 1891 was the leaseholder of the Alexanderplatz Theater . He stayed there until at least 1898 when his theater license was extended. Then he went back to Vienna, where he was the owner and director of an operetta school. Ernst Arnold and Fritz Imhoff were among his students .

Works (selection)

Factory name	genre	Librettist / playwright	Date / year first performance	Place of premiere	file	annotation
Eduard and Kunigunde (also: Kunigunde and Eduard)	Opera	Ludwig Gothov-Grüneke	1869	Werschitz	?
Potpourri from Angot on the blue Danube	Parodic operetta	?	1874	?	1	Composers next to Gothov-Grüneke: Carl Pleininger , Marie von Moser-Sperner , Julius Hauschka and Ignatz Eigner . WP possibly earlier.
A female ruffian	Funny operetta	?	1875	?	1	UA probably earlier.
Soldiers' pranks	Music posse	Ludwig Löwy and Julius Löwy	1875	Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna	?	UA probably earlier.
Red Riding Hood or: The sun's arrows	Fantastic and funny fairy tale with song and dance	Carl Riedl and Carl Crämer	1875	Old theater in Leipzig	?	Guest performance by the Vienna Children's Theater Society under the direction of Karoline Wagener. UA probably earlier.
Hans Jörgel von Gumpoldskirchen	Faschingsschwank with singing and dancing	S. Jacobi and Eduard Richter	1875	Old theater in Leipzig	?	Guest performance by the Vienna Children's Theater Society under the direction of Karoline Wagener. UA probably earlier. See also comical letters from Hans-Jörgels von Gumpoldskirchen
Ninicherl	parody	Bruno Zappert	1878	Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna	1	-
The end justifies the means	Folk piece	Eduard Dorn	1878	Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna	1	The piece was already performed in 1870 as Der Bauernpfarrer, or: the end justifies the means with the music of Karl Kleiber .
The debutant's wife	Funny Singspiel	Ludwig Gottsleben	1879	Pertls Caféhaus im Prater , Vienna	1	-
The Ring of the Fog Boy or: Judaism in Music or: 100,000 Gulden and my daughter	Opera parody	Eduard Dorn	January 18, 1879	Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna	?	Parody of Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, which premiered in 1876, with obvious references to anti-Semitic works such as Wagner's essay Das Judenthum in der Musik (new edition 1869) and Sebastian Brunner's book Das Nebeljungen Lied (1845).
The bells from the cornfield	Ghost operetta	Bruno Zappert	1879	Komische Oper Vienna	1	Parody of the successful operetta Les Cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette , which premiered on September 28, 1878 as The Bells of Cornville at the Theater an der Wien .
A bohem in America (also: On to America)	Singing burlesque	Bruno Zappert and Max von Weinzierl	1880	?	5	Over 500 performances on many stages in Vienna
Modern women	Singing sticks	Bruno Zappert	1880	Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna	?	Performance in five pictures
The soldier's joke	Posse	Julius Loewy	1887		?	Performance in five pictures
The American	operetta	Gustav von Moser	1889	Hamburg and Görlitz (?)	3	-
The kitchen regiment	?	?	1890	Pertls Caféhaus im Prater, Vienna	?	-
Viennese cadets	?	?	1890	Pertls Caféhaus im Prater, Vienna	?	-
Viennese sportswomen	?	?	1890	Pertls Caféhaus im Prater, Vienna	?	-
The Dreibirkenhof	Folk piece with singing	Hans Bartl (under the pseudonym JL Weber)	1892	Schwender's Coliseum in the Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district of Vienna	?	UA probably earlier.
Old Viennese musicians	Genre picture with singing	Georg Stubenvolll	1899	Volkstheater in the kk Prater in Vienna	1	UA probably earlier. Music based on motifs by Johann Strauss and Joseph Lanner . The Lanner Overture by Philipp Fahrbach the Elder
Grandmother dreams of her wedding day	Fantasy piece	Ludwig Gothov-Grüneke (?)	19 ??	?	?	-
48 hours of vacation	?	Bernhard Buchbinder	1903	?	?	UA probably earlier.
How the dwarves conquered the giants	Fairy tale with song and dance	Elly Peiskar and Ludwig Gothov-Grüneke	1913	Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater Vienna	?	UA probably earlier. Sequence of scenes, lyrics and music by Gothov-Grünecke, plot and dialogue by Peiskar.

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Ludwig Gothov-Grünecke in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Article on the music history of the city of Werschetz
2. ^ ^{A b} Worldcat Identities - OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Textbuch: Ein Böhm 'in Amerika . Singing burlesque in five acts by Bruno Zappert, Max von Weinzierl (occasion: 500th performance in Vienna)
3. ↑ google books, Pictorial dramaturgy: visual culture and theater in the 19th century (1869–1899) by Nic Leonhardt, ISBN 3-89942-596-0 , p. 317
4. ^ Worldcat Identities - OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Deutsche Musik-Zeitung (Vienna: 1874), 2nd year, No. 41, score: Potpourri from Angot on the blue Danube . Parodic operetta
5. ↑ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: A female ruffian . Comical operetta in 1 act based on a historical anecdote. Signature: Lower Austria Reg. Pres Theater TB K 708/13
6. ↑ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: Soldiers' Pranks . Music posse in 5 pictures. Signature: Lower Austria Reg. Pres Theater TB K 376/04
7. ↑ Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig, dates of a theater slip for the play Rothkäppchen or The Arrows of the Sun , a fantastic comic fairy tale with song and dance in 5 pictures. Guest performance by the Vienna Children's Theater Society under the direction of Karoline Wagener in 1875
8. ↑ Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig, dates of a theater slip for the play Hans Jörgel von Gumpoldskirchen , Faschingsschwank for large and small children with song and dance in 4 sections
9. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria, BLKÖ: Zappert, Bruno
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Bavarian State Library - Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) - Digital Library - From the libretto collection Her
11. ^ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: The debutant's wife . Funny singspiel in one act. Signature: Lower Austria Reg. Pres Theater TB K 455/16
12. ^ Wiener Moderne: Discourses and Reception in Russia by Gennady Vasilyev , ISBN 3-7329-0137-8 , p. 188 (footnote 8)
13. ^ Edition Wort und Musik - Salzburg Academic Contributions by Andrea Schneider, Title: The parodied music dramas of Richard Wagner - History and Documentation , Entry: The Ring of the Fog Boy or: Judaism in Music , Great heroic-romantic future opera and work of gods, with Trumpets and timpani, poetry and prose, trombones, cannons, dances, marches, double basses, living pictures, Jews, a buffet with cold dishes and also with singing in 4 sections and in 20 minutes ( memento of the original from October 31, 2014 on 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. 
14. ^ Residence town and metropolis: On a cultural topography of the Viennese entertainment theater (1858–1918) by Marion Linhardt , ISBN 3-11-091589-8 , p. 65 (footnote 19)
15. ^ ^{A b c} Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire , Article BLKÖ: Zappert, Bruno
16. ^ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: Der Dreibirkenhof . Folk piece with singing in 7 pictures. Signature: Lower Austria Reg. Pres Theater TB K 437/12
17. ^ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: Alt-Wiener Musikanten . Genre picture with singing in an act partly after Dr. Friedrich Edler from Radler's Josef Lanner by Georg Stubenvoll. Music based on (Johann) Strauss and (Joseph) Lanner's motifs by (Ludwig) Gothov-Grünecke. / The "Lanner Overture by Philipp Fahrbach. Signature: Lower Austria Reg. Pres Theater TB K 470/10
18. ↑ Worldcat Identities - OCLC Online Computer Library Center, text book: Grandmother dreams of her wedding day , fantasy piece
19. ↑ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: 48 hours vacation . Signature: Lower Austria Reg.Pres Theater ZA 1903/1452 K 41 4
20. ↑ Niederösterreichisches Landesarchiv - Findbuch.net, text book: How the dwarfs defeated the giants . Fairy tales with song and dance in three pictures for young and old. Plot and dialogue by Elly Peiskar. Sequence of scenes, lyrics and music by Ludwig Gothov-Grünecke. Signature: Lower Austria Reg. Pres Theater TB K 639/04