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Ben Berlin (born Hermann Biek; 1896–1944) was a
jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
musician born in
Reval Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''m ...
(now
Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
,
Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
) in 1896. He married composer
Vera Vinogradova Vera Pavlovna Vinogradova Biek (23 February 1895 – 19 April 1982) was a Soviet composer and pianist. She performed and published her music under the name "Vera Vinogradova." Vinogradova was born in Leningrad. She studied music at the Leningrad C ...
around 1920 and they had two children, Leopold and Nina. Berlin founded the Ben Berlin Dance Orchestra in
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
in 1928, producing records with
Deutsche Grammophon Deutsche Grammophon (; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of ...
such as ''"Küss mich und morgen vergiss mich"'' and ''"Roses of Yesterday"''. As a
Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...
, he left
Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
Germany in 1933, moving to Holland, Austria, France and finally England where he died in 1944, sitting at his desk.


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Ben Berlin Playlist on Youtube
1896 births 1944 deaths Musicians from Tallinn People from the Governorate of Estonia Estonian Jews German jazz bandleaders 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century German musicians German emigrants to Austria Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to France Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom Musicians from the Russian Empire {{jazz-musician-stub