Mariposa (Foxtrot)

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Mariposa (Spanish for “butterfly”) is the title of a “fox dance” that the composer, music editor and arranger of numerous potpourris , Carl Elias Mieses, composed under his stage name Ernest Tompa. The Foxtrot was published by Drei-Masken-Verlag in Berlin in 1919.

background

The foxtrot , which originated in North America, was called the “fox dance” in Germany after the First World War. Back when it was still new, it was danced with different figures than you know today: with “nimble leg movements, deep squats, splay steps and jumps”, those with “legs thrown high in the air” on the cake walk and his Prances remembered.

Ernst Lubitsch's comedy film “ Die Ausernprinzessin ”, which came out in the same year as “Mariposa” , shows how much more exuberant and freer this way of dancing the foxtrot was . In the course of the plot a "foxtrot epidemic" breaks out that no one can escape.

The “recently most modern salon dance” “Mariposa” was also known under the name “the Geneva Fox Trot” and enjoyed lively demand “in circles of the gentlemen's bandmasters and in dance institutes”.

With the same title “Mariposa” there was also a tango by the French composer and music publisher Laurent Halet at the same time . Another Tango Argentino with this title by A. Dosi was published by the music publisher Sassetti & Ca Editores in Lisbon / Portugal.

Performers

Marek Weber and his “artist house band from the Hôtel Esplanade Berlin” played the “fox dance” “Mariposa” on March 25, 1919 at Parlophon for their “Series Modern Dances” in the funnel. With the “Grammophon” it was Kapellmeister Tauber who recorded it with a dance orchestra. In Vox Dance Orchestra Vox appeared from one each 25 cm and a 30 cm edition, the artists at Homocord and Kalliope remained on the labels anonymity. Kalliope also offered a version that was played on the accordion (Swedish dragspel ): here, too, the artist remained nameless. The dance also appeared on the market as a piano roll for mechanical musical instruments.

Note edition

  • Mariposa. Foxtrot (Fox Dance) by Ernest Tompa. Cover illustration by Paul Telemann. Drei Masken Verlag GmbH. Berlin-Munich 1919.

Audio documents

  • Parlophone-Record [without order no .: (later P. 397-II)] 2-2438. Series I: modern dances. Mariposa. Foxtrot by Ernest Tompa. Played by Marek Weber with his artist house band from the Hôtel Esplanade, Berlin. Up. March 25, 1919
  • Record "Grammophon" 13 637 / 3-940922 (Matr. 14 081 r) Mariposa. Fox-Trot (Fuchstanz) (Ernest Tompa) Played by the dance orchestra. Kapellmeister Tauber.
  • Vox 1035-A (Mat. 270-B) Mariposa. Foxtrot (M: Ernest Tompa) Vox-Tanz-Orchester (NE 03/1922, K1921 / 22), also 30 cm edition: Vox 01031-B (K1921 / 22)
  • Homokord 15 815 (Matr. 15815) [im wax: D4G; A 26 7 19] Mariposa. Fox-Trott (Ernest Tompa) Orchestra.
  • Kalliope K 1 (Matr. Zw 2512) Mariposa. Foxtrot from Tompa. Orchestra.
  • Kalliope K 165 (Matr. Zw 2787) Mariposa. Foxtrot (Tompa) Swedish dragspel shot.

Piano rolls

  • Welte-Mignon # 3685 MARIPOSA, Fox-Trot (dance music) - Tompa, played by Hans Haeuser.
  • Roll No. 1114 - For mechanical zither "Triola": Mariposa, Foxtrot. Tompa, Ernest.
  • Gebr. Weber, Waldkirch in the Black Forest. Roll 9 - 45.6 meters - For Orchestrion Weber “Unika”: Zaza, Foxtrott / Moeder! Ik can never miss, Lied / Mariposa, Foxtrot / Mon chèr ami, Tango milonga.

literature

  • Carl Friedrich Whistling, Adolf Moritz Hofmeister: Hofmeister's Handbook of Music Literature Volume 16, 1924 - Page 470: “Tompa, Ernest. Mariposa. Foxtrot f. Puffs. Berlin, Drei Masken-Verlag M 1.50 n. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ born in Guntramsdorf, Lower Austria on May 27, 1867, wrote under numerous pseudonyms, the most popular of which was probably "Camillo Morena", cf. Ploog Part 2, p. 228; Schröder, dance and entertainment music, p. 259; Schutte, I just want to sing about life, p. 283
  2. ↑ according to Stengel-Gerigk sp. 208–209 his fourth pseudonym, he also used: 1. Richard Bird, 2. George Elbon, 3. Camillo Morena u. 5. Franz Wessobrunn.
  3. ↑ Jllustr. Title shown. at imagesmusicales.be
  4. ↑ Conny Fritsche , dance teacher: “The foxtrot was created between 1910 and 1915 in North America. The foxtrot took on elements from the dances ragtime, one-step, two-step and the Castle Walk choreographed by Vernon and Irene Castle . The name Foxtrot possibly goes back to the actor Harry Fox, who took steps from Onestep and Castle Walk for his then popular variety show “Harry Fox & the Ziegfeld Follies”. Fox thus spread this dance to the public ”.
  5. ↑ Schröder pp. 258, 277; Sachs p. 320
  6. ↑ Fig. At staff.uni-oldenburg.de
  7. ↑ return2style.de  : “The American foxtrot flooded all of Europe in 1918. He was characterized by nimble leg movements that came close to the fox trot. Deep squats, straddling steps and jumps in which the legs were thrown up into the air were just as much a part of it as stopping in the middle of the most beautiful swing (breaks). There were no prescribed steps. "
  8. ↑ on this metaphor cf. the blurb for Astrid Kusser's book “Körper in Schieflage” at transcript-verlag.de : “The history of black fashion dances has so far been dealt with with a wink as a contagious dance fever. However, it was not based on mysterious pathogens, but on solid political conflicts about citizenship, division of labor and gender relations ”.
  9. ↑ listing of the three masks publisher in the "Artist". 37, No. 1780 of 1919, are reproduced. in Schröder, p. 259, and Hauptmann, p. 37: “With these dances there was no longer a gender hierarchy. The women could move freely while dancing ... "
  10. ↑ Sheet music “Mariposa (Le papillon)” (1920) with illustration by Gaston Girbal. at imagesmusicales.be ; Picture of the composer who died in 1932 at blogspot.de (accessed on January 31, 2018)
  11. ↑ Jllustr. Title shown. at imagesmusicales.be
  12. ↑ Max Tauber, eigtl. Moritz Tauber, band leader at the Admirals-Casino (“sophisticated dance hall in Berlin” - see posters at madmenart.com and picclick.de (accessed on January 31, 2018)) in Berlin, answered at Polyphon in Leipzig 1918 modern dance pieces such as Bo-la-Bo , Dolores-Jazz , Hindustan or Tipsy Step .
  13. ↑ listen on youtube
  14. ↑ cf. Lotz, Vox online discography
  15. ↑ cf. Smith-Howe p. 237
  16. ↑ cf. List at organettes.com  ; Image of the instrument at mmdigest.com
  17. ↑ cf. List at Orgelbau Fuchs GmbH  ; for the manufacturer cf. Dr. Herbert Jüttemann, Waldkircher Orchestrionfabrik Gebrüder Weber, at jaegerbrommer.de