Willy Metschke

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Willy Metschke was a Berlin Kapellmeister .

Act

Metschke appeared on the label of Homophon Co. " Homokord " (at that time still written with "k") under the pseudonym Jenő Fesca , but also under the artist name Arpád Városz . By comparison, it was found that these pseudonyms were used in a complementary manner, with recordings on 25 cm plates under Arpád Városz , but the 30 cm editions under Jenő Fesca . The company's advertising portrayed these fictional characters as real and advertised in enthusiastic words about the “flattering warm tone and tight rhythm” of the performances.

Metschke played the violin and led contemporary dance bands in Berlin even before the First World War , for example in the Berlin Tanz-Palast Libelle , of which homocord labels with this inscription still bear testimony. These early recordings in 1922 are also called "Kapellmeister Willy Metschke". In the 1920s, in addition to the usual dance music repertoire with waltzes by Strauss and Waldteufel, there were also “jazzy” recordings by Fesca's band.

As with other record companies, for example with Lindström's “Parlophone” label, it was also the practice of Homophon Co. at the time for the artist to write his signature in the still soft recording wax; this was then pressed in and the buyer received a "signed" record with the name of his favorite artist. This was also practiced at “ Jenő Fesca ”.

Willy Metschke played as "Jenő Fesca" apart from Homokord also with VOX until the end of the 1920s.

After 1930 he could be heard on KRISTALL records.

Selected recordings

  • as the orchestra of the Tanzpalast Libelle Willy Metschke
    • Bells of love / Farewell, black-brown maiden (Homokord 223, approx. 1920)
  • as the Arpád Városz Orchestra
    • Kiss Mama kiss Papa / Brno (Homokord M 1714)
    • What flowers dream / Aubade printinaire (Homokord B 1810)
    • Where did you get those beautiful blue eyes / If you can't, let me go
  • as orchestra Jenő Fesca
    • May Queen / Overture Foxtrot (Vox 8179, 1926)
    • Down home blues / Valencia (Vox 8180, 1926)
    • Münchner Kindl / Weana Madln (Vox 8415, 1927)
    • My darling has to be like you / The little girls in the jersey (Vox 8416, 1927)
    • Potpourri from the operetta Die Zigeunerprinzessin (2 parts) (Vox 8420, 1927)
    • Gold and Silver / Morning Leaves (Vox 8479, 1927) (also as Arpad Janos Orchestra on crystal 1607)
    • Pluie de diamants (2 parts) (Vox 8517, 1927)
    • Poranek / The Wedding of the Winds (Vox 8614, 1928)
    • In the Ceylon tea gardens / Greetings from love (Vox 8615, 1928)
    • Blackin 'blues / Shanghai (Homocord B 8628)

Discography see PDF file

literature

  • Horst H. Lange : Jazz in Germany - the German jazz chronicle 1900-1960, Berlin, Colloquium 1966, 2nd improved edition, Olms 1996, 296 pages, ISBN 3-487-08375-2
  • Rainer E. Lotz: Gramophone records from the ragtime era. (= The bibliophile paperbacks 141), Dortmund (Harenberg), December 1983. ISBN 3883791415 .
  • Simon Géza Gábor: Magyar Jazzkutatási Társaság Föszerkesztö, January 11, 2008.
  • Úgy tünik, hogy Fesca Jenő és Városz Árpád nevével kell kiegészítenünk az "álmagyarok" sorát, hiszen a részletekre mindig nagyon ügyelö Lotz mindkettöjük hangfelvételeit Willy Metschke neve. Elöfordult viszont, amikor üzlettechnikai okokból éppen egy magyar zenész, például Komor Géza szerepelt idegen név, Harry Jackson neve alatt.

swell

  1. ↑ Phonographic magazine (trade journal for the record and speaking machine trade, 1902 to 1938), Berlin, Verlag Rothgiesser & Diesing, year 1923: “Arpád Városz, Künstlerkapelle. Recordings of the latest hits with that flattering warm tone and tight rhythm that involuntarily tempts you to dance. The technical reproduction is so perfect that you don't think you're hearing records, but the band itself "
  2. ↑ For example Blackin 'blues (Foxtrot, LaPorte & Nathanson) / Shanghai (Foxtrot, Horatio Nicholls): Homocord B. 8628, 30 cm, Jenő Fesca chapel
  3. ^ Vox artist discography

Audio samples

  • Willy Metschke as "Arpád Városz" plays the Foxtrot "Lucky Hours" by Hartwig v. Platen, open. 1925 on Homocord B.1896 (Matr. 17 999)
  • Willy Metschke as "Arpád Városz" plays the 'modern dance' "Florida du Rève" by Harry Boston on Homocord 2-1432 (Matr. 18 522)
  • Willy Metschke as "Arpád Városz" plays the Boston "Narcotic" by Harry Boston on Homocord 2-1432 (Matr. 18 523)
personal data
SURNAME Metschke, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vesca, Jenő (pseudonym); Városz, Arpád (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Kapellmeister
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century