Philipp Silver

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Philipp Silber (born July 17, 1876 in Czernowitz , Bukowina , † probably in 1942 in the Sobibor extermination camp ) was an Austrian composer .

Life

Silber, son of the traveling salesman Oswald Silber, attended elementary school and grammar school in Vienna and Radautz . Subsequently, he studied from 1896 to 1900 law at the University of Vienna , where he in 1903 to Dr. jur. received his doctorate . At the same time he took musical lessons from Carl Lafite , Alexander von Zemlinsky and Richard Heuberger . From 1903 onwards, Silber was a member of the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers (AKM) in Vienna, founded in 1897, and represented this copyright society in various legal functions, including as a member of its arbitration tribunal.

In addition to his work as a functionary, Silber was also active as a conductor and choir director and composed waltzes, marches, songs, operettas and an opera.

As early as 1907, Silber made gramophone recordings with a “special orchestra of members of the Wiener Tonkünstler ” for the Scala and Premier brands. When the ' First International Hunting Exhibition ' took place in Vienna in 1910 , he was hired to conduct the 18-man “Manhattan Chapel”, which played there in a bandstand to entertain the visitors. This line-up has been recorded on Premier Record. It also proves that in addition to opera music and light classical music, Silber not only played conventional European-Viennese light music, but was also open to new transatlantic forms of music such as the Cake Walk .

On June 14, 1913, the constituent meeting of the Austrian Composers 'Club (today the Austrian Composers' Association , ÖKB) took place in Silber's apartment in Vienna ; Along with Eduard Kremser (first president) and Carl Michael Ziehrer (first vice president), silver was a second vice president on the founding board of the ÖKC. At the 4th General Assembly on March 2, 1916, Silber was replaced in this function by Franz Lehár . At the end of the 1920s, Silber was General Secretary of the Society of Concert Conductors, Kapellmeister and Choir Director in Vienna.

After his deportation from the Izbica ghetto on June 14, 1942, there was no sign of life in silver. In 1969 he was pronounced dead on the date of deportation.

Works

  • The traveling fellow . Weird opera
  • 1896: The misogynist . Operetta. Libretto by Karl Georg Zwerenz .
  • 1906: Under the Stephansturm . Operetta.
  • 1908: The Birds of Paradise. Operetta . Libretto by AM Willner and Julius Wilhelm .
  • 1912: Chaste Joseph . Operetta. Libretto by Karl Georg Zwerenz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ That probably related to the instrumentation, which was due to the necessities of the acoustic recording technology of the time (so-called “gramophone” instrumentation), cf. grammophon-platten.de [1]
  2. ↑ See list at gramofononline.hu [2] and in the DNB catalog [3]
  3. ↑ See Simon-Hirschenberger, Jazzkutatás January 1, 1999.
  4. ↑ “A hilarious Negro wedding” Humorous Cake Walke [sic] (Hermann Vollstedt): Hunting exhibition Manhattan Chapel. Conductor: Dr. Philipp Silber, Vienna. Premier Record CAA 5232 (mx. K 19 000), recorded Vienna 1910.
  5. ↑ Of course, in addition to his own compositions ("Lichtenthaler March", waltz "Rose von Schiras"), he had marches, waltzes and polkas by Austrian composers such as Alois Neidhart, CM Ziehrer and Franz Lehár in his repertoire, cf. Music catalog DNB
  6. ↑ a b Hartmut Krones : 80 Years of the Austrian Composers 'Association 1913–1993 , in: Austrian Composers' Association , Festschrift 1993 (pdf; 205 kB)

literature

  • Ch. Fastl:  Silber, Philipp. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 259.
  • Austrian music lexicon . Volume 5. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  • Exhibition Commission International Hunting Exhibition (Ed.): The first international hunting exhibition Vienna 1910: official catalog. Vienna, Publishing House of the Exhibition Commission, 1910. Length 376 pages
  • Monika Oberhammer: Comments on the First International Hunting Exhibition Vienna 1910, on line at [4]
  • Simon Géza Gábor and Wolfgang Hirschenberger (eds.): RAGTIME-DISZKOGRÁFIA, Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia 1900-1928. Jazzkutatás January 1, 1999 [5]
  • Simon Géza Gábor: Popular Music and Jazz in Austria. Historical audio documents 1902–1920. Jazzkutatás May 31, 2013 [6]
  • Wolfgang Hirschenberger: kuk ragtime. on line at jazzfreunde.at [7] (PDF; 2.1 MB). Here's. 12-14 images of the "Manhattan Chapel", the label of the Premier Record 5232, the cinematographic salon of the exhibition.

Web links

  • Entry for Filipp Silber in: The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
  • Entries on Dr. Philipp Silber in the DNB catalog, music archive [8]
  • Sound document: “A hilarious negro wedding” Humorous Cake Walke [sic] (Hermann Vollstedt): Hunting exhibition Manhattan Chapel. Conductor: Dr. Philipp Silber, Vienna. Premier Record CAA 5232 (mx. K 19 000), recorded Vienna 1910 [9]
personal data
SURNAME Silver, philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi , Bukovina
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1942
Place of death Sobibor extermination camp