"Connie" Edmund Kötscher (17 April 1909 – 15 January 1990) was a German
light music
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composer and
bandleader
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.
Life and career
Born in Berlin, Kötscher studied music at the
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar
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The Hochschule
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with
Max Strub and . He then worked as a conductor with various orchestras before leading his own dance orchestra. From 1933/34, he was concertmaster at the
Admiralspalast
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in Berlin. After the
Erhard Bauschke Orchestra was frequently on tour or otherwise contractually bound, Kötscher was commissioned to build up an orchestra for a German shortwave broadcaster. From 1939, he and his dance orchestra (a studio band of musicians from the Admiralspalast, to which the pianist also belonged) played a series of records for Imperial und Electrola such as ''Großstadtmelodie'' (Imperial 17269, with the ), ''Fidele Geisterstunde'' and ''Cabaret der Noten'' (1939), ''Schön ist die Zeit der jungen Liebe'', ''Sing mit mir'' (1942), (both with
Herta Mayen) and ''Ich sag’ dir guten Morgen'' (ca. 1942/43, with
Liselotte Malkowsky, Electrola 7310). Kötscher wrote about 2000 songs, mostly light music and hits like ''Abends in der kleinen Bar'', ''Liechensteiner Polka'', ''Amsterdamer Polka'', ''Wenn die Lichter wieder scheinen'' (recorded by
Arne Hülphers
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), but also
Swing influenced pieces like ''Step Boys''.
Tom Lord
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: ''The Jazz Discography'' (online, retrieved 19 October 2020) He also composed works for accordion, big band and orchestra; in addition, he wrote an arrangement of Mozart's ''Violin concerto in G major''.
Kötscher died in Berlin at the age of 80.
Further reading
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Armin Suppan
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Life
Born in Graz, son of the musicologist Wolfgang Suppan, Suppan studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as well as at the Hochschule fà ...
,
Wolfgang Suppan
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Career
Born in Irdning, Suppan studied music at the and musicology ( Hellmut Federhofer), folklore w ...
: ''Das Blasmusik-Lexikon. Komponisten – Autoren – Werke – Literatur''.
''Das Blasmusik-Lexikon : Komponisten - Autoren - Werke - Literatur''
on WorldCat Published in connection with the Styrian brass band association, 5th edition, HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, .
* Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: ''The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music – Composers and Their Music'', Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, .
* ''Edmund Kötscher'', in ''Die Blasmusik'' – Official organ of the Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbände e.V., Freiburg im Breisgau, June 1990, ,
* Andreas Masel: ''Das Große Ober- und Niederbayerische Blasmusikbuch; mit Beiträgen von Stephan Ametsbichler, Stefan Hirsch und Heinz Wohlmuth; Ehrentafel der Ober- und Niederbayerischen Blasmusikkapellen'', published by the Musikbund von Ober- und Niederbayern, Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1989, 543 p.
References
External links
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Edmund Kötscher
on Allmusic
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German violinists
Concertmasters
German composers
German bandleaders
1909 births
1990 deaths
Musicians from Berlin