Carl Michalski (18 January 1911 – 11 December 1998) was a German composer and conductor, focused on operetta and dance music.

Career

Born in Bochum, Michalski was a student of Leopold Reichwein. He worked as the Kapellmeister at the

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from 1932 to 1934. He was conductor of the Münchener Tanzrundfunkorchester, an orchestra dedicated to swing and dance music, of the broadcaster Reichssender München from 1934 to 1938. Simultaneously, he worked from 1934 at the

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in Munich as arranger, conductor and composer. He collaborated with Bernhard Stimmler, composing the operetta ''Gitta'', which premiered at the Gärtnerplatztheater on 16 May 1942, subtitled ''A Journey into the Blue''. All German theatres closed in summer 1944 due to World War II. From 1952, Michaslki was engaged at the reopened Gärtnerplatztheater as the "Musikalischer Oberleiter" (supervisor of music). In addition he was active in the theater administration as an assistant to the director. In 1954, he revived there the operetta '' Die keusche Susanne'' by Jean Gilbert. He conducted Cole Porter's ''

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'' in 1956 and Carl Zeller's '' Der Vogelhändler'' in 1957. As a conductor he made several recordings with the orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper, the Tanzrundfunkorchester, the Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke and the Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. He made numerous recordings of operetta excerpts, such as Leo Fall's '' Die Rose von Stambul'' with

Melitta Muszely Melitta Muszely (13 September 1927 – 18 January 2023) was an Austrian operatic soprano and a voice teacher. She made a career based in Germany, mainly at the Hamburg State Opera with guest contracts to the Komische Oper Berlin and the Vienna ...

and

Fritz Wunderlich Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich (26 September 1930 – 17 September 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in an accident aged 35. Biography Wunderlich was born in Kusel in ...

, Fall's ' with Christine Görner and Heinz Hoppe, and Paul Abraham's '' Viktoria und ihr Husar'' with Sári Barabás and Hoppe. A recording of spirituals sung by George London, with members of the orchestra of

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, was reissued by

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in 2006. Michalski died in Bad Wiessee.

Literature

Wilhelm Kosch Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (2 October 1879 – 20 December 1960) was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and lexicographer. The lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the ' is a references in the field of German ...

(editor): ''

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''. Volume II: Hurka–Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (

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