Rudolf Sieczyński

Rudolf Sieczyński, around 1937

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Rudolf Sieczyński (born February 23, 1879 in Vienna ; † May 5, 1952 ) was an Austrian Viennese song - composer , librettist, writer , civil servant and president of the Austrian Association of Composers .

Life

Rudolf Sieczyński came from a family with Polish ancestors. Playing the piano, he learned from his mother, after visiting the high schools in Kremsmünster and the Theresianum he studied at the Vienna University of Law and in 1904 for Dr. iur. PhD. After entering the service of the Lower Austrian provincial government, he initially worked at the Mödling district authority , after the First World War he was head of the provincial agricultural authority , now with the professional title of Hofrat . In 1919, Manz published his legal treatise, The Resettlement of Laid Farm Estates and Houses .

As a sideline, he wrote books on cultural and moral history and composed Viennese songs, for which he usually wrote the text himself. His musical oeuvre includes only a few works, none of which should become better known than his Opus 1 Vienna, you city of my dreams, composed in 1912 . Sieczyński became famous with it during the First World War, and it became a global success when the song was subsequently translated into several languages. In Paris they sang Vienne, Ville de mes rêves , Richard Tauber recorded it as Vienna, City of my Dreams in London for the record. Melody and text were used, edited, adapted, parodied many times; In 1999 the song was incorporated into the score for " Eyes Wide Shut ".

Vienna, you city of my dreams , title page (Musikverlag Robitschek )

The refrain is:

Vienna, Vienna, only you
should always be the city of my dreams!
There where the old houses stand
, where the lovely girls go!
Vienna, Vienna, only you
should always be the city of my dreams!
Where I am happy and blessed
is Vienna, is Vienna, my Vienna!

In addition, Sieczynski was President of the Austrian Composers' Association, which he led to a new upswing in the difficult times of need 1925–1930 and helped contemporary music to gain a high presence on the radio . 1930–1938 and 1947–1949 he led the composers' union together with Joseph Marx and was also vice-president of the AKM for a while .

He was buried on May 9, 1952 in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 65, row 2, no. 10).

Rudolf Sieczynski grave site

Awards

• 1935: Officer's Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit
• 1948: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna

Works

Musical

Unless otherwise stated, Rudolf Sieczyński is the author of the music and text.

• Vienna, you city of my dreams . Op. 1. Wienerlied. ("Dedicated to Ms. Lisl Breycha with admiration.") Robitschek, Vienna 1914.
• Go with me! Op. 2nd Viennese Heurigenlied. (“Dedicated to my dear friend Alois Grafen Kielmansegg.”) Robitschek, Vienna 1914.
• You old Austria! Lied (“Dedicated to my dear mother”) Robitschek, Vienna 1915.
• These are the women and girls of Vienna . Op. 4th song. Robitschek, Vienna 1916.
• Little Marie . Op. 5. Quite a sentimental song. Robitschek, Vienna 1916.
• Come on my blond little girl . Op. 6th song. Robitschek, Vienna 1916.
• Yes, such a Viennese girl! Op. 10th song. Robitschek, Vienna 1918.
• The car defect . Op. 11th song. ("Dedicated to Mrs. Lisl Breycha.") Robitschek, Vienna 1919.
• Wiener Vorstadt-Lied . Op. 14. (“Dedicated to the dear married couple Dr. Risch.”) Robitschek, Vienna 1919.
• Eye language . Op. 15th song. ("Dedicated to Ms. Lilly Klaudy.") Robitschek, Vienna 1920.
• The little friend . Op. 16. Fox Trot. (“Dedicated to my dear friend Dr. Oskar Breycha.”) Robitschek, Vienna around 1921.
• The ruffian . Wienerlied. Doblinger, Vienna 1922.
• Vienna, my first love . Song. Doblinger, Vienna 1927.
• In Grinzing with this year's wine . Wienerlied. Edition Scala, Vienna 1928.
• I say blue, she says green . Song and Foxtrot. Text by Bede . Boheme-Verlag, Vienna 1932.
• That's a reason to drink . Song and slowfox. Text by Karl Farkas and Ludwig Hirschfeld . Music by Rudolf Sieczyński and Frank Fox . Doblinger, Vienna 1930.
• Wherever you are, baby, I want to be there! Foxtrot. Words from Beda and Alfred Grünwald . Wiener Operetten-Verlag, Vienna 1931.
• You mustn't believe that you are the only one! Song and tango. Text by Bede. Boheme-Verlag, Vienna 1932.
• Tomorrow is sunshine again . Dance song. Doblinger, Vienna 1933.
• When the lilacs bloom in Vienna . Viennese dance song. Dacapo Verlag, Vienna 1934.
• Far out in the suburbs of Vienna! Wienerlied. Words and music by Rudolf Sieczyński and Ferry Wunsch . Doblinger, Vienna 1935.
• One dreams of fairy tales of love in the Vienna Woods . Wienerlied. Words from Franz Almeder . Robitschek, Vienna 1935.
• You old Vienna . A melodramatic cycle of poems by Alfred von Wurmb. ("To our dear friend Dr. Joseph Marx in old admiration for his music and his humor.") Doblinger, Vienna 1938.
• Ball in the Apollo hall . Poem by Franz Karl Ginzkey . ("To our dear friend Dr. Joseph Marx in old admiration for his music and his humor.") Doblinger, Vienna 1938.
• Love and sorrow . Waltz song. Words from Emil Maass. Astoria, Vienna 1939.
• The Weanaleut have mistakes . Wienerlied. Robitschek, Vienna 1940.
• On the Jägerzeil'n back then . Wienerlied. Words from Josef Hochmuth and Hans Werner. Friedrich Hofmeister-Figaro Verlag, Vienna 1940.
• Out in Lerchenfeld my Maderl was at home . Wienerlied. Musikverlag am Schubertring, Vienna 1942.
• I have a little house outside on the Kahl'nberg . Wienerlied. Robitschek, Vienna 1942.
• The Liab 'and my cigar . Wienerlied. Words from Alfred Steinberg-Frank . Wiener Operettenverlag, Vienna 1948.

Edits

• Old Vienna in song . A collection of old Viennese songs for guitar or lute arranged by Rudolf Sieczyński. M. Krämer's successor, Vienna 1921.

Literary

• Moral history with humor . Gallant and ungalant little stories told in prose and verse. Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1946.
• Old Viennese folk comedian . Wiener Verlag, Vienna 1947.
• Wienerlied, Viennese wine, Viennese language . Wiener Verlag, 1947.
• Strange people in what was once Vienna . A collection of miniatures. Wiener Volksbuchverlag, Vienna 1950.

Libretti

• Cherchez la femme . Libretto for a comic opera in five pictures. Together with JM Welleminsky , 1948; (not set to music).
• Treaty with France . Scenario for a musical comedy from the Baroque period in five pictures. Together with JM Welleminsky, after 1945 (?); (not set to music).

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 218.
• Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: A composer on the Mödling district administration: Rudolf Sieczynski's eternal global success “Vienna, Vienna only you alone” is 100 young. In: Local history supplement [to the official gazette of the district authority Mödling], 49th year, F. 1, (Mödling March 5, 2014).
• Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Volume 5. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

• Entry on Rudolf Sieczyński in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Works by and about Rudolf Sieczyński in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Sieczyński in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Vienna, you city of my dreams The entire text

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Awards at the n.-ö. Provincial governance. In:  Triestingtaler and Piestingtaler Wochen-Blatt , August 10, 1935, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
2. ^ Vienna 1948: Reports from April 1948. April 23 , 1948 : The community honors Viennese composers. In: wien.at. City of Vienna, accessed on August 23, 2020 .