Nico Dostal

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Monument to Nico Dostal in Korneuburg

Nico Dostal ; actually Nikolaus Josef Michael Dostal (born November 27, 1895 in Korneuburg , Austria-Hungary , † October 27, 1981 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian operetta and film composer .

Life

Nico Dostal first devoted himself to studying law at the University of Vienna , but then turned to studying music at the Academy for Church Music in Klosterneuburg and made a name for himself with his “Great Mass” in D major, which was premiered in Linz in 1913 .

Nico Dostal's grave

After his participation in the First World War, Dostal worked from 1919 to 1924 as a theater kapellmeister in Innsbruck , Sankt Pölten , Vienna , Czernowitz and Salzburg and went to Berlin in 1924 , where he turned to popular music, worked in music publishing and as a freelance arranger for, among others Oskar Straus , Franz Lehár , Walter Kollo , Paul Abraham and Robert Stolz worked. Dostal also worked as a conductor and composer, wrote the music for the film Kaiserwalzer and had great success in 1933 with his first operetta Clivia , which followed, along with a few others, Die Vielgeliebte (1934), The Hungarian Wedding (1939) and numerous film scores. In 1946 Dostal moved to Vienna and had lived in Salzburg since 1954, where he continued to devote himself to his composing activities and wrote the chamber musical So Make a Career (1961). In addition to operettas and film music, Dostal also composed church music.

He was the nephew of the composer Hermann Dostal . Since 1942 he was married to the opera singer Lillie Claus . Their son Roman Dostal became a conductor.

Nico Dostal died in Salzburg in 1981 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Salzburg municipal cemetery.

In recent times, Dostal's operettas from the period from 1933 to 1945 have also been examined and classified according to the extent to which they would reflect the ideology of the Nazi regime: Here, too, the general finding was made, as with all other operettas of this time and their arrangements and Staging that they should rather create uncritical exhilaration, time-critical contexts should be deliberately faded out.

Awards

Works

Operettas

  • 1922: The eccentric woman
  • 1923: Lagoon magic
  • 1933: Clivia
  • 1934: the beloved
  • 1936: Princess Nefertiti
  • 1937: Extra sheets
  • 1937: Monika
  • 1939: The Hungarian wedding
  • 1940: The escape into happiness
  • 1942: The great dancer
  • 1942: Eva in her evening dress
  • 1942: Manina
  • 1946: Enchanted Hearts
  • 1946: A stranger in Venice
  • 1949: Sweet little friend
  • 1950: circus blood
  • 1950: The Queen's Courier
  • 1952: Doctor Eisenbart
  • 1954: The third wish
  • 1955: Love letters operetta
  • 1961: This is how you build a career
  • 1963: Rhapsody of love
  • The golden mirror
  • 1990: Don Juan and Figaro or The Lamb of the Poor

Film music

suite

  • 1945: In my mountains
  • Postponed: Symphonic Suite (world premiere 2018)

Fonts

  • You never get to the end of your dreams, reports - confessions - reflections . Penguin, Innsbruck 1982.

Nico-Dostal singing competition

The Nico-Dostal singing competition has been held since 1976 alternately in Bisamberg, Langenzersdorf and Korneuburg near Vienna (Austria). Since 2011 (with interruptions in 2014 and 2017) it has only taken place in Korneuburg under the direction of Ernst Lintner. The aim of the competition is to give young singers the opportunity to present themselves with Dostal's music to an international jury with the prospect of engagement.

Web links

Commons : Nico Dostal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Clarke : "I'll pull an eyelash out and stab you dead with it!" The denazification of the Nazi operetta between 1945 and 2015. Operetta Research Center, June 21, 2016, accessed October 19, 2017 .
  2. ^ The film program Spring on the Ice
  3. ^ Roman Seeliger, Die Wiener Eisrevue. A dream faded away. Vienna 1993
  4. ^ Roman Seeliger, Die Wiener Eisrevue. Once Austria's ambassador - today a legend. District Museum Vienna Meidling, 2008
  5. ^ Isabella Lechner, Die Wiener Eisrevue. Diploma thesis University of Vienna, 2008
  6. ^ Biography Ernst Lintner, tenor - vocal studio Prof. Ernst Lintner . In: Singing studio Prof. Ernst Lintner . ( kuenstlerforum.at [accessed on May 17, 2018]).
  7. ^ Website of the Nico-Dostal Singing Competition , accessed on May 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Dostal, Nico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dostal, Nikolaus Josef Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian operetta and film music composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Korneuburg , Lower Austria , Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1981
Place of death Salzburg , Austria