Oskar Jascha

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Oskar Jascha , actually Oskar Othmar (born June 4, 1881 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † January 9, 1948 there , Austria ), was an Austrian composer and conductor .

Oskar Jascha, son of a Catholic printer's owner and a Jewish mother, received his training at a conservatory in Vienna. In 1905 he became Kapellmeister and composer at the Carl-Weiß-Theater in Berlin , where his revue In Berlin istwas los was premiered in the same year . He then worked in Germany, Holland and Italy, a. a. also in Munich, where he worked as a director and director at the theater and cabaret Die Hölle from 1913 onwards. In 1915 he returned to Vienna, worked as Kapellmeister at the local cabaret Die Hölle and from 1917 at the Theater an der Wien . From 1927 he worked as a freelancer, for example at the Stadttheater Wien , the Raimundtheater and the Volksoper , and from 1933 to 1938 he also conducted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. After the "Anschluss" of Austria he had to go into hiding and survived the war years in Munich. In 1945 he came back to Vienna and was again active as a conductor, for example at the Citizens' Theater and for Radio Vienna , where he also directed performances of the large radio orchestra.

He composed numerous operettas , including Die Brasilianerin , premiered in 1923 at the Carltheater , Revenche in 1924 for the Bürgerertheater and also in 1933 Rosen im Schnee - three works in which Fritz Löhner-Beda was involved as a librettist. In addition to other operettas and singing games such as Die Vogelscheuchen (1916) and Ade, du liebes Elternhaus (1928), Jascha also composed interludes such as Das Rendezvous (1915), revues , stage music and hits such as Mädel, komm mit , sung by Claire Waldoff . In total his oeuvre comprises around 200 works.

Oscar Jascha's grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery

It rests in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Vienna Central Cemetery (VII, 1). In 1955 the Oskar-Jascha-Gasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

literature

  • Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 4. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 464.
  • Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon . Part II, Volume 2. Schneider, Tutzing 1977, ISBN 3-7952-0228-0 , p. 534.
  • Vienna City and State Archives (WSTLA): Biographical Act
  • Michael Wolf, Klaus Edel: Selected celebrity graves at the Evangelical Cemetery Simmering. An introduction to the history of the cemetery and a guide to selected celebrity graves . Edited by the Evangelical Press Association in Austria, Vienna 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Monika Kornberger: Jascha, Oscar (own Oskar Othmar). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
  2. ↑ Oskar Jascha in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era (LexM), as of August 25, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Short biography on: Evangelical Cemetery Simmering , celebrity graves
  4. ↑ Carolin Stahrenberg:  Claire Waldoff in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM), as of March 27, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Jascha, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1948
Place of death Vienna