Silvio Hein

Silvio Hein (born May 15, 1879 in New York City , † December 19, 1928 in Saranac Lake , New York ) was an American composer who is little known today .

Life

Hein was born as the second son of the couple Victor (* 1847 in Austria ; †?) And Irene Hein (* 1854 in Italy ; †?) In the United States. As a boy he was sent to Europe, where he studied in Vienna and Trieste .

He was not yet 20 years old when he composed his first operetta. At the age of 22 he wrote the top seller Every Morn I Bring Thee Violets . From 1905 to 1922 he mainly composed musicals for Broadway . Probably his best known and most popular work was He's A Cousin Of Mine (1906).

In 1914 he was one of nine founding members of ASCAP , where he was chairman and later board member. Like the other two founders Jacob Witmark and Gustave Adolph Kerker , Hein was also a Freemason .

Hein suffered from a chronic lung infection from his mid-twenties. At the age of 46 he had to stop working for the stage. He spent his final years at the Good Samaritan Sanatorium in Saranac Lake. His body was buried in Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn .

Musicals (excerpt)

Some Party , Jolson 's 59th Street Theater, 1922
The Girl from Home , Globe Theater , 1922
Experience , Manhattan Opera House, 1918
The Merry Wives of Windsor , Park Theater, 1917
Miss Daisy , Miss Daisy, 1914
Miss Daisy , Herald Square Theater, 1910
Moonshine , Majestic Theater, 1906

literature

Jack Burton: The Honor Roll of Popular Songwriters: No. 26 - Silvio Hein. In: Billboard , July 2, 1949, pp. 42-43. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
Hein, Silvio. In: Gerald Martin Bordman: The Oxford Companion to American Theater. Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 333.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hein, Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 1928
Place of death	Saranac Lake , New York

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[2] Emessay Note August 2001