Mario Traversa

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Mario Traversa (* Bologna , 1912 ; † 1997 ) was a violinist and conductor .

Life

Traversa was considered “one of the greats among the café violinists ”. He came from La Scala in Milan , where he was concertmaster with Arturo Toscanini . In Germany, together with the brothers Eberhard and Walter Schoener, he founded a salon orchestra for light music , with which he appeared in the 1930s and 1940s as “Mario Traversa, violin, with Schoener band”. In this line-up he also recorded records for “Grammophon”.

During the war he was the conductor of a small entertainment orchestra in Danzig . After the war, Traversa and Walther Günther led the small entertainment orchestra of the then NWDR in Hamburg . There he also performed together with the organist Gerhard Gregor . From the late 1950s he was conductor of the spa orchestra of Bad Pyrmont .

Sound documents (selection)

  • Gr 47 321 (mx. 8348-2 GR9) Good afternoon, good luck. Along. Waltz (Franz Grothe) a. d. Sound film “ Into the blue life ” (aka Castelli in aria , Italy 1939, directed by Augusto Genina, with Lilian Harvey) / (mx. 8401-2 GR9) A small white house. Along. Foxtrot (Ludwig Schmidseder)
  • Gr 47 343 (mx. 8306 GR9) Valse triste (Jean Sibelius) / (mx. 8307 GR9) Only those who know longing (PITschaikowski, op. 6 No. 6)
  • Gr 47 403 (mx. 8813-2 GR9) Little doll fairy (Sulla Carrozzella), Foxtrot (Gino Filippini) / (mx. 8814-2 GR9) Come to me tonight. Along. Foxtrot a. d. Optte “The poor Jonathan” by Josef Rixner.
  • Gr 47 487 (mx. 8400-2 GR9) A star fell. Tango (D. von Stahelberg) / (mx. 8814-2 GR9) It will never be like this again. Along. Foxtrot (Gerh.Winkler, text: Bruno Balz) with refraing singing by Rudi Schuricke. Mech. Copyr. 1940
  • Gr 47 731 (mx. 8846-2 GR9) kisses in the dark (Baci al buio), Serenade (G. de Micheli) / (mx.8848-2 GR9) Blue Pavilion. Andalusian Serenade (José Armándola, d. I. Willi Lautenschlaeger)

Web links

  • Publications by Mario Traversa in WorldCat
  • Mario Traversa, with Schoener Chapel  : Come back / Tornerai / J´attendrai. Foxtrot Melody (Dino Olivieri) gramophone 47 384 B (mx. 8418 1/2 GD9), open. 1939, on Youtube
  • Mario Traversa (1912-1997) / “Pyrmonter Palmen, And again a beautiful day comes to an end” / Melodies by Oskar Strauss, historical sound recording with the Traversa-Schoener Orchestra. In: CD “300 years of Musikbad-Pyrmont”, track 9.
  • Article "Mario Traversa with Schoener Orchestra" by users 'monokel', 'nostalphon', 'limania' and 'sondermeldung' at grammophon-platten.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Television: 8.15 p.m. ARD. Under German roofs : May 25, 1987. The Munich all-rounder Eberhard Schoener asked around in the music pavilion in Bad Pyrmont, where Mario Traversa, once Toscanini's concertmaster, is swinging the baton. [1]
  2. ^ Laudation for Kapellmeister Heino Krieg [2]
  3. ↑ cf. Article by Jürgen Lamke, Die Welte-Funkorgel des Norddeutscher Rundfunks, p. 287 [3] (PDF; 505 kB)
  4. ↑ [4] and section “History of the spa concerts” at [5]
personal data
SURNAME Traversa, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Violinist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
DATE OF DEATH 1997