Rudolf Antonín Dvorský
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Rudolf Antonín Dvorský (born March 24, 1899 as Rudolf Antonín in Dvůr Králové , † August 2, 1966 in Prague ) was a Czech singer , composer , publisher and band leader . The surname was a stage name derived from his birth town.
Life
He grew up in the East Bohemian town of Dvůr Králové and initially worked for a brewery. After the First World War, he moved to Prague at the age of 19. As an editor of a publishing house he got to know the sheet music of jazz music and switched to the music industry. After his birthplace he adopted the stage name RA Dvorský . He first appeared with Karel Hašler in his cabaret Lucerna. In 1926 he founded his quartet Melody Makers , which he gradually developed into a first-class big band and renamed the Melody Boys . With his arrangements, he made jazz a little more socially acceptable, was also open to other musical styles and, for example, also integrated the more popular local polka into his programs. He drew further inspiration from abroad, where he often stayed, or from foreign formations that performed in Prague. At the beginning of the 1930s he played as a pianist in the orchestra of the violinist Sam Baskini and his jazz symphonic orchestra in Berlin.
Inka Zemánková , Arnošt Kavka , or the three Allan sisters Máša Horová , Věra Kočvárová and Jiřina Salačová belonged to the singing elite of his orchestra . But the orchestra conductor himself always celebrated the greatest success when he stepped to the microphone. For Dvorsky, the period between the two world wars was the most beautiful, productive and happiest. He also gives guest performances with his orchestra in West Bohemian health resorts and in Denmark .
In 1936 he published the complete works of Jaroslav Ježek in his own publishing house , as well as his own compositions and those of other outstanding personalities of the Czech jazz and dance music scene. They were also exported to other European countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands and Great Britain . At the Czech record company Ultraphon , which cooperates with the German Telefunken record , he recorded a total of around 2,000 titles on shellac records. He also worked as a singer and with his orchestra in around 25 films.
On May 2, 1940, he sang the title Our Czech Song in the Lucerna Hall in Prague, accompanied by his big band, in the presence of the tearful author Karel Hašler, who died a year later in Mauthausen concentration camp .
In 1944 he fell ill with severe pneumonia . After the war in 1945 his orchestra was disbanded. In February 1948, his music publisher was also expropriated. From 1953 to 1956 he was imprisoned for political reasons and was only allowed to perform in public again in 1965. In 1967, a year after his death, his title A Fairy Tale of Lily of the Valley was voted hit of the year.
Web links
- Radio Praha
- Rudolf Antonín Dvorský in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature and other media by and about Rudolf Antonín Dvorský in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Works by and about Rudolf Antonín Dvorský in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ RA Dvorský and Allan-Trio: Peter, Peter, where were you tonight (1941) on YouTube
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dvorský, Rudolf Antonin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Antonin, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech entertainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dvůr Králové |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1966 |
| Place of death | Prague |