Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 in Nagykanizsa , Austria-Hungary - November 9, 1951 in New York City) was an American composer of Hungarian origin.
biography
Origin and education
Romberg (actually Rosenberg) was the time of the Austro-Hungarian -Monarchie Austria-Hungary in the western Hungarian town of Nagykanizsa (dt. United Churches), the son of a German- Jewish family was born. His father was an amateur musician and his mother wrote poetry. From the age of six he learned to play the violin and from the age of eight he learned to play the piano. However, his parents had planned for him to be an engineer and therefore enrolled him in the Osijek secondary school. He spent five years there and played in the school orchestra. After attending other schools, he went to Vienna as a teenager to study at the Polytechnic Institute . At the same time he took composition lessons from Richard Heuberger , the celebrated composer of the operetta Opernball . Romberg experienced the last great period of the Viennese operetta with Franz Lehár , Robert Stolz and Emmerich Kálmán in the capital of the late Habsburg Empire .
Restaurant pianist in the USA
In 1909 he emigrated to the USA. He was temporarily employed in a pencil factory in New York . Romberg then worked for $ 15 a week as a pianist in a café on Second Avenue . Further engagements as a restaurant pianist followed. In 1912 he was hired by one of New York's most elegant restaurants, Bustanoby's. The young Hungarian directed the house chapel in the baroque restaurant owned by the French brothers André and Jacques Bustanoby on West 39th Street. Public dancing was frowned upon in the prudish United States before World War I , so it was unusual for Romberg to play dance numbers every evening. Within a very short time, the French "lobster palace" (Eng. Lobster palace) became a popular rendezvous place and Romberg's fee rose to 150 dollars per week. In addition, he composed dance music, such as B. the Onesteps Leg of Mutton and Some Smoke , which were published on Tin Pan Alley .
Composer with the Shubert Brothers
In 1914 Louis Hirsch (1887–1924), who had been the resident composer of the powerful theater entrepreneur Shubert Brothers since 1912 , left this theater company to co-found the collecting society ASCAP . Lee Shubert (1871–1953) and Jacob J. Shubert (1879–1963) then hired Sigmund Romberg as a replacement. In 1914 he led the Winter Garden Theater his first Broadway - Review on: The Whirl of the World (dt "The vortex of time."). The success secured his future as a Broadway composer. By 1917 Romberg had already delivered over 300 songs for 17 musicals and revues. Among the stage shows were some Singspiele with Al Jolson in the Winter Garden, some editions of The Passing Show (an annual review) and the 1915 operetta The Blue Paradise , for which he wrote his first big hit, Auf Wiedersehen (text: Herbert Reynolds). He continued to write musical comedies and revues for the Shubert Brothers, but his greatest successes were with operettas in the European tradition.
Romberg reworked Walter Kollo's operetta, as it did in May, completely in American taste. The title was now May Time , but the Berlin scene was moved to New York for patriotic reasons because of the German enemy. The lyrics had Rida Johnson Young (1869-1926) and Cyrus Wood (1889-1942) written. Especially the song Will You Remember? became a hit. The premiere took place on August 16, 1917 and 492 performances followed. Then Romberg was involved in some music shows, in which the siblings Adele and Fred Astaire also appeared. At the end of the First World War he served in the troop maintenance of the US Army.
Successes of the twenties
His first five musicals after the end of the war failed the audience, but in September 1921 he made Franz Schubert's tragic life as Blossom Time an operetta theme and was successful at the Ambassador Theater. The model was Heinrich Berté's Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus , which had been successful in 1916 at the Raimund Theater in Vienna with popularly arranged Schubert melodies. On December 22, 1922, the Australian composer George Howard Clutsam (1866-1951) and the English librettist Adrian Ross (1859-1933) brought out their own adaptation under the title Lilac Time at the Lyric Theater in London.
The Student Prince was first performed on December 2, 1924 at Jolson's 59th Street Theater in New York . Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's (1862–1934) successful drama Alt-Heidelberg from 1901 had been transformed by Broadway librettist Dorothy Agnes Donnelly (1880–1928) into a lively operetta text that matched Romberg's sometimes snappy, sometimes romantic melodies. This “tragic operetta”, a form that Romberg had adopted from Lehár, set against the nostalgic backdrop of Heidelberg , became an outstanding box-office hit in the USA. Other popular successes were the operettas The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928), the musicals My Maryland (1927) and Rosalie (1928). For the operetta The New Moon , which was initially unsuccessful, he wrote the two songs Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise and Lover, Come Back to Me with Oscar Hammerstein II for its New York production , both of which became hits and later also to jazz standards .
From Hollywood back to Broadway
The Desert Song was made into a film by the director Roy Del Ruth (1893–1961) in 1929 , as well as in 1932, 1943 , 1953 and 1955. Since then Romberg has often written film music for Hollywood productions. His Broadway musicals of the 1930s were almost always failures, while his movie songs occasionally became hits, such as When I Grow Too Old to Dream from The Night Is Young (1935) by Dudley Murphy (1897–1968) or Who Are We to Say from the western In the Golden West (1938) by Robert Zigler Leonard .
In 1941, William Morris (1873–1932), a large artist agency, asked Romberg to put together an orchestra that went on tour shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . The first three touring tours were financial bankruptcies as the United States entered the war, but the fourth, which began at Carnegie Hall in 1943 , was a great success. The concerts were then posted with the headline An Evening with Sigmund Romberg . In 1945 the last Romberg musical that attracted crowds ran on Broadway, Up In Central Park , with a text book by the siblings Herbert Fields (1897-1958) and Dorothy Fields (1905-1974).
Sigmund Romberg died shortly after completing his musical comedy The Girl In Pink Tights . He was buried in the non-denominational Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, where numerous celebrities found their final resting place. Two and a half years later, his last musical premiered on March 5, 1954 at the Mark Hellinger Theater on West 51st Street. Stanley Donen filmed Romberg's life in 1954 with Deep in My Heart , more of a revue than a biography. The composer was portrayed by José Ferrer .
effect
The musical significance of Sigmund Romberg lies in the fact that he brought European, especially Viennese, operettas to Broadway at the beginning of the 20th century, successfully "Americanized" them and gave decisive compositional and dramaturgical impulses to the emerging musical as an independent American art form. His mélange of Viennese waltzes and Tin Pan Alley hits, American fairground and march music as well as Wagner's swell sounds and Richard Strauss ' program music moved far enough away from kitsch to be recognized today as an unusual but easily audible mixture can. Romberg let the high spirits of the operetta of the old world flow with playful ease into the modern forms of music of the new, where jazz was just emerging.
Works
Operettas, musicals, revues on Broadway
- Title: The Whirl of the World
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Harold Atteridge (1886–1938)
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: January 10, 1914
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 161 - Title: The Passing Show of 1914
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carrol (1892–1962)
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Choreography: Jack Mason
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: June 1, 1914
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 133 - Title: Dancing Around
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carrol
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Choreography: Jack Mason
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: October 10, 1914
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 145
- Title: Maid in America
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Harry Carrol
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: February 18, 1915
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 108
- Title: Hands Up
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Edward Ray Goetz (1886–1954)
Libretto: Edgar Smith
Lyrics: Edward Ray Goetz
Choreography: Jack Mason
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: July 22, 1915
Location: 44th Street Theater
Performances: 52
- Title: The Blue Paradise
Form: Musical
Music: Edmund Eysler (1874–1949), further songs by Leo Edwards (1884–1944) and Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edgar Smith
Original: Musikposse Ein Tag im Paradies (1913) by Edmund Eysler, texts by Béla Jenbach (1871–1943) and Leo Stein (1861–1921)
Lyrics: Herbert Reynolds
Choreography: Ed Hutchinson
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: August 5, 1915
Location: Casino Theater (thereafter: 44th Street Theater)
Performances : 356 - Title: A World of Pleasure
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Choreography: Jack Mason and Theodore Kosloff (1882–1956)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: October 14, 1915
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 116
- Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Form: Comedy in 4 acts with musical interludes
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Text: Harrison Garfield Rhodes (1871–1929)
Original: Harry Leon Wilsons (1867–1939) novel of the same name from 1915
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Director: Joseph Harry Benrimo (1874–1942)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: December 25, 1915
Location: Fulton Theater
Performances: December 33 , 1915 - Title: Robinson Crusoe, Jr.
Form: Posse with music in 2 acts and 10 scenes
Music: Sigmund Romberg and James F. Hanley (1892–1942)
Libretto: Harold Atteridge and Edgar Smith
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge and Edgar Smith
Director: JC Huffman
Choreography: Allan K. Foster
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: February 17, 1916
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 139 - Title: The Passing Show of 1916
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Otto Motzan (1880–1937)
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Director: Jacob J. Shubert and JC Huffman
Producer: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: 22 June 1916
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 140 - Title: The Girl from Brazil
Form: Operetta
Music: Robert Winterberg (1884–1930) and Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edgar Smith
Original: Die Dame in Rot (1911) by Robert Winterberg, original libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
Choreography: Allan K. Foster
Directed by Jacob J. Shubert and JC Huffman
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World Premiere: August 30, 1916
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 61 - Title: The Show of Wonders (Second Edition)
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg, Otto Motzan and Herman Timberg (1892–1952)
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Director: JC Huffman Music Director
: Allan K. Foster
Producer: Jacob J Shubert First
performance: October 26, 1916
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 209 - Title: Follow Me
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Felix Dörmann (1870–1928) and Leo Ascher (1880–1942)
Lyrics: Robert B. Smith (1875–1951)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: 29 November 1916
Location: Casino Theater
Performances: 78
- Title: Her Soldier Boy
Form: Operetta
Music: Emmerich Kálmán, further songs by Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Rida Johnson Young (1869–1926)
Model: Operetta Der gute Kamerad (1914) by Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), original libretto : Károly Bakonyi (1873–1926) and Victor Léon (1858–1940)
Lyrics: Robert B. Smith (1875–1951)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: December 6, 1916
Location: Astor Theater (later Lyric Theater and Shubert Theater )
Performances: 198
- Title: The Passing Show of 1917
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Otto Motzan
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Choreography: Jack Manning (1897–1940)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: April 26, 1917
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 196
- Title: My Lady's Glove
Form: Operetta
Music: Oscar Straus (1870–1954), further songs by Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edgar Smith and Edward A. Paulton Based on
: The beautiful unknown (1915) by Oscar Straus, original libretto by Leopold Jacobson (1878 –1943) and Leo Stein
Lyrics: Edgar Smith and Edward A. Paulton (1866–1939)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: June 18, 1917
Location: Lyric Theater
Performances: 16 - Title: Maytime
Form: Operetta in four acts
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Rida Johnson Young and Cyrus Wood (1889–1942)
Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young and Cyrus Wood
Direction: Edward P. Temple (1861–1921), Allan K. Foster and Jacob J. Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performed: August 16, 1917
Location: Shubert Theater (later 44th Street Theater , Broadhurst Theater, and Lyric Theater )
Performances: 492 - Title: Doing Our Bit
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Herman Timberg
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Director: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: October 18, 1917
Location: Winter Garden Theater
performances: 130 - Title: Over the Top
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Philip Bartholomae (1879–1947), more songs by Herman Timberg
Lyrics: Sigmund Romberg and Philip Bartholomae
Director: JC Huffman
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: November 28th 1917
Location: Lew Fields' 44th Street Roof Garden
Performances: 78 - Title: Sinbad
Form: Musical in two acts
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Al Jolson (1886–1950)
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Arrangements: Jack Mason
Choreography: Alexis Kosloff
Direction: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: February 14, 1918
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 164 - Title: The Passing Show of 1918
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz (1878–1956)
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Choreography: Jack Mason
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: July 25, 1918
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 124 - Title: The Melting of Molly
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edgar Smith
Lyrics: Cyrus Wood
Original: Roman The Melting of Molly (1912) by Maria Thompson Daviess (1872–1924)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: December 30, 1918
Location: Broadhurst Theater
Performances: 88 - Title: Monte Cristo, Jr.
Form: Musical farce
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: February 12, 1919
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 254 - Title: The Magic Melody
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Frederic Arnold Kummer (1873–1943)
Lyrics: Frederic Arnold Kummer
Producers: Max R. Wilner and Sigmund Romberg
World premiere: November 11, 1919
Location: Shubert Theater
Performances: 143 - Title: Poor Little Ritz Girl
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Richard C. Rodgers (1902–1979)
Libretto: Lew M. Fields (1867–1941) and George Campbell
Lyrics: Lorenz M. Hart (1895–1943) and Alex Gerber
Music Director: Pierce de Reeder
Producer: Lew M. Fields
World Premiere: July 28, 1920
Location: Central Theater
Performances: 93 - Title: Pagan's
Form: Tragedy in Three Acts
Author: Charles Anthony
Producer: Max R. Wilner and Sigmund Romberg
World Premiere: January 4, 1921
Location: Princess Theater
Performances: 15 - Title: Love Birds
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edgar Allan Woolf (1889–1948) and Ballard MacDonald (1882–1935)
Lyrics: Edgar Allan Woolf and Ballard MacDonald
Producers: Max R. Wilner and Sigmund Romberg
Director: Edgar MacGregor (1878–1957) and Julian Alfred
World premiere: March 15, 1921
Location: Apollo Theater
Performances: 103 - Title: Blossom Time
Form: Musical in three acts
Music: Sigmund Romberg based on motifs by Franz Schubert and Heinrich Berté (1857–1924)
Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly (1880–1928)
Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly
Original: Heinrich Bertés Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916) , Original libretto by Alfred Maria Willner (1859–1929) and Heinz Reichert (1877–1940)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: September 29, 1921
Location: Ambassador Theater
Performances: 576
Revivals: from May 19, 1924 in Jolson's 59th Street Theater (592 performances); from March 8, 1926 at Jolson's 59th Street Theater (16 performances); from March 4, 1931 in the Ambassador Theater (29 performances); from December 26, 1938 at the 46th Street Theater (19 performances); from September 4, 1943 in the Ambassador Theater (47 performances) - Title: Bombo
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Directors: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: October 6, 1921
Location: Jolson's 59th Street Theater
Performances: 218 - Title: The Blushing Bride
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Cyrus Wood
Lyrics: Cyrus Wood
Original: eponymous play by Edward Clark (1878–1954)
Director: Frank Smithson
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: June 10, 1922
Location: Astor Theater (then 44th Street Theater )
Performances: 144 - Title: The Rose of Stamboul
Form: Operetta
Music: Leo Fall (1873–1925) and Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Original: Die Rose von Stambul by Leo Fall, original libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
Director: JC Huffman
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World Premiere: March 7, 1922
Location: Century Theater
Performances: 111 - Title: Springtime of Youth
Form: Musical
Music: Walter Kollo (1878–1940) and Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics: Matthew C. Woodward and Cyrus Wood
Original: Stars that shine again (1918) by Walter Kollo, original libretto by Rudolf Bernauer (1880– 1953) and Rudolph Schanzer
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: October 26, 1922
Location: Broadhurst Theater
Performances: 68 - Title: The Passing Show of 1923
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Director: JC Huffman and Jacob J. Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: June 14, 1923
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 118 - Title: Innocent Eyes
Form: Musical, Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge and Tot Seymour (1889–1966)
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: May 20, 1924
Location: Winter Garden Theater
performances: 126 - Title: Marjorie
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg, Herbert P. Stothart (1885–1949), Philip Culkin and Stephen Jones
Libretto: Fred Thompson (1884–1949), Clifford Gray (1887–1941) and Harold Atteridge
Producer: Embassy Productions , Inc. First
performed: August 11, 1924
Location: Shubert Theater (later 44th Street Theater )
Performances: 144 - Title: The Passing Show of 1924
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz
Libretto: Harold Atteridge
Lyrics: Harold Atteridge
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: September 3, 1924
Location: Winter Garden Theater
Performances: 93 - Title: Artists and Models (1924)
Form: Revue
Music: Sigmund Romberg and John Frederick Coots (1897–1985)
Libretto: Harry Wagstaff Gribble (1896–1981)
Lyrics: Clifford Gray (1887–1941) and Sam Coslow (1902–1982 )
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: October 15, 1924
Location: Astor Theater
Performances: 261 - Title: The Student Prince
Form: Operetta
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly
Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly
Original: Schauspiel Alt Heidelberg (1901) by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: December 2, 1924
Location: Jolson's 59th Street Theater
Performances: 608
revivals: from January 29, 1931 at the Majestic Theater (42 performances); from June 8, 1943 in the Broadway Theater (153 performances) - Title: Louis the 14th
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)
Lyrics: Arthur Wimperis
Original: Ludwig XIV. (1922), Schwank in 3 acts by Paul Frank and Julius Wilhelm
Director: Edward Royce (1870 –1964) Music
director: Gustave Salzer
Producer: Florenz Ziegfeld junior (1867–1932) First
performance: March 3, 1925
Location: Cosmopolitan Theater
Performances: 79 - Title: Princess Flavia
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Harry B. Smith (1860–1936)
Lyrics: Harry B. Smith
Original: Roman The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by Anthony Hope (1863–1933), eponymous play ( 1908) by Edward E. Rose (1876–1939)
Director: JJ Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert First
performance: November 2, 1925
Location: Century Theater
Performances: 152 - Title: The Desert Song
Form: Operetta
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Otto Harbach (1873–1963), Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel (1884–1958)
Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly Music Director:
Hilding Anderson
Book Director: Arthur Hurley
Producers: Laurence Schwab ( 1893–1951) and Frank Mandel First
performance: November 30, 1926
Location: Casino Theater
Performances: 471
Revival: from September 5, 1973 at the Uris Theater (15 performances) - Title: Cherry Blossoms
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Harry B. Smith
Lyrics: Harry B. Smith
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World Premiere: March 28, 1927
Location: 44th Street Theater
Performances: 56 - Title: My Maryland
Form: Musical in 3 acts
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly
Lyrics: Dorothy Donnelly
Template: Play Barbara Frietchie (1899) by William Clyde Fitch (1865–1909)
Director: Jacob J. Shubert
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World Premiere: September 12, 1927
Location: Jolson's 59th Street Theater
Performances: 312 - Title: My Princess
Form: Operetta
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Dorothy Donnelly
Template: Acting The Proud Princess, a modern fairy-tale in four acts (1923) by Edward Sheldon (1886–1946) and Dorothy Donnelly
Producer: Alfred E. Aarons (1865–1936)
First performance: October 6, 1927
Location: Shubert Theater
Performances: 20 - Title: The Love Call
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edward Locke (1869–1945)
Lyrics: Harry B. Smith
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert, L. Lawrence Weber (1872–1940)
World premiere: October 24th 1927
Location: Majestic Theater
Performances: 88 - Title: Rosalie
Form: Musical in two acts
Music: George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: William Anthony McGuire (1881–1940) and Guy Bolton (1884–1979)
Lyrics: PG Wodehouse (1881–1975) and Ira Gershwin (1896–1983 )
Orchestration: Emil Gerstenberger, William Daly, Maurice De Packh (1896–1960), Hans Spialek, Max Steiner (1888–1971) and Hilding Anderson
Choreography: Seymour Felix (1892–1961)
Director: William Anthony McGuire
Producer: Florenz Ziegfeld junior
First performance: January 10, 1928
Location: New Amsterdam Theater
Performances: 335 - Title: The New Moon
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab Music
Director: Bobby Connolly (1895–1944)
Producers: Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel
World premiere: September 19, 1928
Location: Imperial Theater ( afterwards Casino Theater )
Performances: 509 - Title: Nina Rosa
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Otto Harbach
Lyrics: Irving Caesar (1895–1996)
Directors: Jacob J. Shubert and JC Huffman
Producers: Lee and Jacob J. Shubert
World premiere: September 20, 1930
Location: Majestic Theater
performances: 137 - Title: East Wind
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II and Frank Mandel
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Orchestration: Hans Spialek
Director: Oscar Hammerstein II Music Director
: Oscar Bradley (1893–1948)
Choreography: Bobby Connolly
Producer: Laurence Schwab and Frank Mandel
World premiere: October 27, 1931
Location: Manhattan Theater
Performances: 23 October 1931 - Title: Melody
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Edward Childs Carpenter (1872–1950)
Lyrics: Irving Caesar
Director: George White
Music Director: Alfred Goodman (1890–1972) Music Director
: Bobby Connolly
Producer: George White (1892–1968)
World premiere: February 14, 1933
Location: Casino Theater
Performances: 79 - Title: May Wine
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Frank Mandel
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Original: Roman The happy alienist: a Viennese caprice (1936) by Wallace Smith (1888–1937) and suggestions from films by Erich von Stroheim ( 1885–1957)
Orchestration: Donald J. Walker and Russell Bennett (1894–1981)
Director: José Ruben (1899–1969)
Music Director: Robert Emmett Dolan (1906–1972) Music Director
: Bobby Connolly
Producer: George White (1892–1968)
First performance: December 5, 1935
Location: St. James Theater
Performances: 213 - Title: Forbidden Melody
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Otto Harbach
Lyrics: Otto Harbach
Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
Director: Macklin Megley (1891–1965)
Dialogue director: José Ruben
Producers: Jack Kirkland (1902–1969) and Samuel H Grisman
Premiere: November 2, 1936
Location: New Amsterdam Theater,
Performances: 32 - Title: Sunny River
Form: Musical in two acts
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Orchestration: Donald J. Walker Direction: Oscar Hammerstein II and John Murray Anderson (1886–1954)
Choreography: Carl Randall (1898– 1965)
Producer: Max Gordon (1892–1978)
First performance: December 4, 1941
Location: St. James Theater
Performances: 36 - Title: Up in Central Park
Form: Musical in two acts
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Herbert Fields (1897–1958) and Dorothy Fields (1905–1974)
Lyrics: Dorothy Fields
Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
Director: John Kennedy
Music director: Max Meth (1900–1984)
Choreography: Helen Tamiris (1905–1966)
Producer: Michael Todd (1909–1958) First
performance: January 27, 1945
Location: New Century Theater (then Broadway Theater )
Performances: 504 - Title: My Romance
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Rowland Leigh (1903–1963)
Lyrics: Rowland Leigh
Template: Play in three acts Romance (1913) by Edward Sheldon
Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
Director: Rowland Leigh
Music director: Roland Fiore
Choreography: Fredric N. Kelly (1916–2000)
Producer: Michael Todd First
performance: October 19, 1948
Location: Shubert Theater (later Adelphi Theater )
Performances: 95 - Title: The Girl in Pink Tights
Form: Musical
Music: Sigmund Romberg
Libretto: Jerome Chodorov (1911–2004) and Joseph A. Fields (1895–1966)
Lyrics: Leo Robin (1900–1984)
Orchestration: Donald J. Walker
Arrangements ( Ballet Music ): Trude Rittman (1908–2005)
Director: Shepard Traube (1907–1983)
Music Director: Sylvan Levin
Choreography: Agnes de Mille (1905–1993)
Producer: Shepard Traube (1907–1983)
World premiere: March 5, 1954
Location: Mark Hellinger Theater
Performances: 115
Film scores and adaptations
- 1929: The Desert Song
- 1930: New Moon
- 1930: Viennese Nights
- 1931: Children of Dreams
- 1932: The Red Shadow
- 1935: The Night Is Young
- 1937: Maytime
- 1937: They Gave Him a Gun
- 1938: In the golden west
- 1939: Let Freedom Ring
- 1939: Broadway Serenade
- 1940: New Moon
- 1943: The Desert Song
- 1948: Up in Central Park
- 1951: The Two Mouseketeers
- 1953: The Desert Song
- 1954: The Student Prince
- 1954: Deep in My Heart
- 1954: The Desert Song (TV)
literature
- Elliott Arnold: Deep in My Heart: A Story Based on the Life of Sigmund Romberg . Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1949, 511 pp.
Web links
- Sigmund Romberg in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Sigmund Romberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Songwriters Hall of Fame: Sigmund Romberg , National Academy of Popular Music, New York (in English)
- Murray L. Pfeffer: Sigmund Romberg (Composers and Lyricists Database Plus, in English)
- Színészkonyvtár: Sigmund Romberg (in Hungarian)
- Hal Erickson : Deep in My Heart , All Movie Guide; Bosley Crowther : The Screen in Review; Romberg Film, Mostly Music, at Radio City , New York Times film review , December 10, 1954
- Goodbye (1915), text by Herbert Reynolds, melody by Sigmund Romberg ( text and music file )
- Lover, Come Back to Me (1928), text by Oscar Hammestein II, music by Sigmund Romberg
- The Desert Song , Operetta (1926), content , text of the title song by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, It (There was a time) (excerpt, mp3)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Romberg, Sigmund |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagykanizsa , Austria-Hungary |
DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1951 |
Place of death | New York (State) , United States |