Snowflake Fox

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Snowflake Fox is the name of a novelty- style piano piece that the Hungarian composer and pianist Alexander László wrote for the mountain film The Quaking Mountain . Hanns Beck-Gaden directed this sound film , which was produced by Leo-Film AG in Munich and premiered there on October 2, 1931.

With Alexander László as the soloist on the piano, the Ilja Livschakoff orchestra recorded the “Snowflake Fox” on gramophone record. On the B-side was another hit from the film, also penned by László and recorded with a text by his wife, which the tenor Paul Dorn performed.

A copy of the recording is in the archives of Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich).

Sound document

  • Snowflake Fox (Alexander László) gramophone 24 211 A (Matr. 4174 bd)
  • I saw happiness this evening. English Waltz (Alexander László) gramophone 24 211 B (Matr. 4172 bd)
  • Ilja Livschakoff Dance Orchestra with vocals: Paul Dorn; on the piano Prof. A. László. Mech. Cop. 1931
  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 382 461 924

literature

  • Jörg Jewanski: The color light music Alexander Lászlós. In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte Volume 60, Issue 1 (1997), pp. 12-43 ( JSTOR 1482843 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It is called "Novelty Foxtrot" on the label of the gramophone record. For the style cf. David Jasen & Trebor Tichenor in: Rags & Ragtime, a Musical History, Dover 1978: “Novelty piano ragtime was a product of American pianists with classical music training […] they put together an extremely complex rhythmic and harmonic series of progressions which demanded the greatest technical skill to perform […] The distinctive sound of the Novelty rag is a combination of the influence of the French Impressionists - Claude Debussey and Maurice Ravel - with contrasting rhythms […] Chromaticism is at the heart of the Novelty tradition […] Probably the most striking hallmark of Novelty writing is the use of consecutive fourths in the melody voicing. ”(Quoted from John Roache : What Is Ragtime, Stride and Novelty Piano? © 1997, 1999). The masters of this style included Zez Confrey , Billy Mayerl, and Arthur Schutt .
  2. ↑ See filmportal.de
  3. ↑ label shown. at ytimg.com
  4. ↑ See Jewanski, p. 36
  5. ↑ listen on youtube