Siegfried Translator

Salo Siegfried Translateur (born June 19, 1875 in Bad Carlsruhe , Upper Silesia , † March 1, 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German composer , conductor and music publisher .

Life

His first education he received in Wroclaw , which he in 1909 at the Conservatory in Vienna in-depth. Further music studies took place in Leipzig until Translateur went to Berlin as Kapellmeister in 1909. There he founded the music publisher “Lyra” in 1911 , which was renamed “Musikverlag Lyra Translateur & Co” in 1933 after his son Hans was accepted as a partner. He published both his own works (mainly marches and waltzes ) and works by other composers.

Translateur's best-known work is the waltz Wiener Praterleben , which he composed at the age of 17 in 1892 and which became popular as a sports palace waltz in the 1920s through the Berlin six-day race and has remained to this day.

Based on the Nuremberg Laws (1935), Translateur was classified as a “Jewish mixed race”, excluded from the Reich Chamber of Music and had to liquidate the publisher as a “ non-Aryan company”.

On April 19, 1943 Translateur was deported to Theresienstadt , where he died after just under a year.

Works (selection)

Wiener Praterleben, op.12 (also Sportpalast waltz ), waltz
Through struggle to victory, op. 66, march
Danube Fairy Tale, op.99 , waltz
What flowers dream, op.156, character piece
Only those who know longing, op. 161 (American Longing ), waltz
A night's dream, op.164, Waltz Intermezzo
Wedding procession in Liliput, op. 165, character piece

Audio documents

Recordings on records (examples)

Fast through life. Waltz. Gloria GO 10 328 (mx. Bi 504) / Gypsy love. Waltz. Gloria GO 10 328 (mx. Bi 505) Siegfried Translateur, with orchestra.
What flowers dream. Character piece. Metropol dance orchestra. Polyphon 30 087 (mx. 613 ar) around 1920
dto., Géza Komor Orchestra. Tri-Ergon TE 5102 (mx. 01003) around 1930
dto., Orchestra Jenö Fesca [d. i. Willy Metschke] Homocord 4-3267 (mx. TC1440) around 1930
Wedding procession in Liliput. Character piece. Paul Godwin Orchestra. Gramophone 19 660 (mx. 198 bi) - 1929
dto., Orchestra Fred Bird, Homocord 4-2431 (mx. M 19 478) - 1929
Wiener Praterleben (" Sportpalast " -Walzer) Orchestra Edith Lorand, Beka B.6370 (mx. 34 749) - 1928

Audio samples

[1] Wiener Praterleben (S. Translateur) bird voice imitator Mons. Alexandre with orchestral accompaniment, Zonophone Record X-5-29258 (mx 443 from) recorded on January 23, 1909 in Berlin.
[2] Wiener Praterleben, waltz (Vienna Sport Life), “European waltz concert rhythm” (translator): Kapellmeister Stern with his artist band from Hotel Adlon, Berlin. "Recorded in Europe". Vocalion B 09069 (from "Polyphon" matrix) approx. 1920
[3] What flowers dream - waltz (Siegfried Translateur) VOX dance orchestra. Vox No. * 01798 (die No. 441 A) approx. 1922
[4] Wiener Praterleben (Sportpalast waltz) (S. Translateur). Large dance string orchestra, conducted by William Greiß. Odeon O-26 637a (Be 13 593) circa November 1947

literature

Kuhlmann, Friedhelm: Siegfried Translateur In: German Johann Strauss Society (Hrsg.): New Life - Bulletin of the German Johann Strauss Society , Issue 44 (2013, No. 4), Coburg, 2013. ISSN 1438-065X

Web links

Siegfried Translateur in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
Siegfried Translateur at www.planet-vienna.com (with the story of the "Sportpalast" -Walzers)
Siegfried Translateur at www.klassika.info
Siegfried Translateur at www.bosworth.at (with catalog raisonné of the works published by Lyra and Bosworth)
Sheet music and audio files from Siegfried Translateur in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

^ Entry Translateur, Salo Siegfried Memorial Book of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on February 1, 2018. Date of death given as March 2, 1944.
^ Ordinance sheet for Greater Berlin; 3rd volume no. 10; Issue date June 27, 1947 is entered on page 141 under the heading “Declarations of Death”: “14 II 424/46 - 1. Meta Translateur, geb. Seelmann, born April 25, 1874 in Stolp, 2nd composer Salo, called Siegfried Translateur, born June 19, 1875, last resident in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Güntzelstraße 15th anniversary of death: on November 1st, 1944, on January 2nd, 1875 March 1944. “District Court Charlottenburg 14.II. Sat 10/47.

personal data
SURNAME	Translator, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Translateur, Salo Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer, conductor and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Carlsruhe , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1944
Place of death	Theresienstadt ghetto

[1] Entry Translateur, Salo Siegfried Memorial Book of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on February 1, 2018. Date of death given as March 2, 1944.

[2] Ordinance sheet for Greater Berlin; 3rd volume no. 10; Issue date June 27, 1947 is entered on page 141 under the heading “Declarations of Death”: “14 II 424/46 - 1. Meta Translateur, geb. Seelmann, born April 25, 1874 in Stolp, 2nd composer Salo, called Siegfried Translateur, born June 19, 1875, last resident in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Güntzelstraße 15th anniversary of death: on November 1st, 1944, on January 2nd, 1875 March 1944. “District Court Charlottenburg 14.II. Sat 10/47.