Rolf Marbot

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Rolf Marbot

Rolf Marbot (born May 28, 1906 in Breslau as Friedel Albrecht Marcuse or as Albrecht Marcus, † August 22, 1974 in Cannes ) was a composer, author, pianist and music publisher .

Life

Albrecht Marcus [e] s parents were of Hungarian descent; the son grew up in Breslau. In addition to music, he was also interested in tennis . Marcuse became Silesian junior champion in this sport. He studied law, but also worked as a bar pianist and pianist in operettas, including on a tour to Norway . He used his pseudonym Rolf Marbot from 1927.

In 1930 he received his doctorate in Breslau with a thesis on the position of the unincorporated association in inheritance law and civil procedure law , but could not, as originally planned, become a lawyer. Therefore, he also completed an apprenticeship in publishing. As early as 1929 he was an employee and legal advisor at the Berlin branch of Anton J. Benjamin Musikverlag. He was also active as a hit author and composer.

Marbot created numerous successful titles in collaboration with Bert Reisfeld and Austin Egen , among others . His well-known works include Yale (1928), At Fräulein Lisbeth on the Parterre (1930), Come to the normal clock at five (1931), Open your window , Vera, Vera (1931) and This time, when I'm on vacation, I'll go to the Rhein (1931), also Ganovenehre (1932), Zwei gute Kameraden (1932/33) and My little green cactus . In total, he had created around 300 titles by 1938.

In July 1933 Marbot, who was of Jewish origin, fled to France, where he founded the music publisher Éditions Méridian in Paris together with Rodolfo Hahn , possibly also with Bert Reisfeld. He had already shared an apartment with Hahn in Berlin. He remained exposed to hostility from Germany, for example in the anti-Semitic magazine Das Deutsche Podium , which agitated against the import of his hits into Germany.

From March 1939 he was registered as a composer and author with SACEM .

When the Second World War broke out, he was interned. On December 23, 1939, he joined the Foreign Legion , in October 1940 he returned to France after his demobilization and initially lived on small royalties and the sale of notes. In 1942 he adopted the code name Louis Sandret after he had managed to obtain forged papers. As Louis Sandret he worked as a bar pianist in Lyon and Pralognan-la-Vanoise until he returned to Paris in September 1944 and was able to take over his publishing house, which had been run by the Bachelet brothers in the meantime. He now renamed it in Nouvelles Éditions Méridian.

This publishing house, which he ran for 30 years with his colleague Fernande Ray, was initially located at 95 rue de la Boétie and moved to 5 rue Lincoln in 1946. While Marbot initially worked exclusively with Fernande Ray, the number of employees rose to more than 30 by the 1960s. Marbot also ran a recording studio and a sheet music engraving shop. From 1948 he worked in the Société d'Édition Musicale Internationale (SEMI) with Ralph Peer senior and mainly represented Peer's Latin American production in France, whereas Peer ensured the dissemination of Marbot's offers in the USA.

Marbot published works by Maurice Thiriet , Henri Barraud , Roland Petit and Raymond Queneau , among others .

The Edition Marbot branch was founded in Hamburg in 1958; In 1960, Marbot received compensation for its losses during the Third Reich .

Marbot was naturalized in France in 1947. He was Chairman of SACEM and from 1956 to 1973 President of the Chambre Syndicale des Éditeurs de Musique Légère (CSDEM) and General Secretary of the Société des Droits de Reproduction mécanique (SDRM).

After his death in 1979, the Peermusic publishing group took over his publishing houses.

The prix Rolf-Marbot was named after Rolf Marbot.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition. Vol. 11: Supplements / register of persons . Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25041-5 , p. 654 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b short biography on grammophon-platten.de
  3. ↑ a b Sophie Fetthauer:  Rolf Marbot in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era (LexM)
  4. ^ Sophie Fetthauer: Music publishers in the "Third Reich" and in exile . von Bockel, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-932696-52-2 , p. 470 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ a b c d Short biography at www.peermusic.fr
  6. ↑ Nidam Abdi, La Sacem pas regardante sur ses prix. , on: www.liberation.fr, January 13, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Marbot, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marcuse, Friedel Albrecht (real name); Marcus, Albrecht; Albrecht, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French songwriter, composer, publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1974
Place of death Cannes