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Heinrich Berté (), born Heinrich Bettelheim (8 May 1858 – 23 August 1924) was an Austria-Hungarian
Heinrich Berté (), born Heinrich Bettelheim (8 May 1858 – 23 August 1924) was an Austria-Hungarian composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
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of opera
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s and operetta
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s.
Life
Heinrich Berté was born in Galgócz,Hungary
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(now Hlohovec
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Name
The name comes from ''*Glogovec'', the Old Slavic name for a place densely overgrown by hawthorn. The Hung ...
, Slovakia
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) in a Jewish family. At the beginning of his career, he was a relatively unsuccessful composer of ballet
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s and an opera. In 1911 he was offered a libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...
by the writer Alfred Maria Willner
Alfred Maria Willner (11 July 1859 – 27 October 1929) was an Austrian writer, philosopher, musicologist, composer and librettist.
Biography
Alfred Maria Willner was born and died in Vienna. He began composing mostly music for the piano and eve ...
for an opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...
about Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
, based on the novel, '' Schwammerl'' by Rudolf Hans Bartsch
Rudolf Hans Bartsch (born 11 February 1873 in Graz, Styria – died 7 February 1952 in St. Peter in Graz), was an Austrian military officer, and writer. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times.
Life and work
Bartsch wrote n ...
, but this was turned down and he was told to use Schubert's music in a pastiche
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instead.
On 15 January 1916 his first performed work, an arrangement of Franz Schubert's ''Das Dreimäderlhaus
''Das Dreimäderlhaus'' (''House of the Three Girls''), adapted into English-language versions as ''Blossom Time'' and ''Lilac Time'', is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by Heinrich Berté (1857–1924), ...
'' was premiered in the Raimund Theater
The Raimund Theater is a theatre in the Mariahilf district of Vienna, Austria.
Named after the Austrian dramatist Ferdinand Raimund, the theatre was built by an association of Viennese citizens and opened on 28 November 1893 with Raimund's play ...
in Vienna
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, Gretl Schörg's voice was discovered during the run. The operetta was translated into 22 languages and in 1921 it opened as ''Blossom Time Blossom Time may refer to:
* Blossom Time (operetta), a 1921 English-language adaptation of the operetta ''Das Dreimäderlhaus''
* Blossom Time (1934 film), a British musical drama film, based on the operetta ''Das Dreimäderlhaus''
* Blossom Time ...
'' in New York City
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, in 1922 as '' Lilac Time ''in London
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), and was performed in over 60 countries, it was a worldwide success. The operetta was filmed several times . Berté could not build on this success, his second Schubert operetta was unsuccessful. He died in Perchtoldsdorf
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Geography
It is located immediately at the Vienna city limits, south of the ...
, Austria
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, aged 66.
Works
Opera
*Schneeflocke (Vienna
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, 1896)
Operettas
*Bureau Malicone (Vienna, 1891) *Der neue Bürgermeister (Vienna, 1904) - libretto byErnst Gettke
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Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (1975- ...
*Die Millionenbraut (Munich
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, 1904)
*Der Stadtregent (Munich, 1905)
*Der kleine Chevalier (Dresden
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, 1907)
*Der schöne Gardist ( Breslau, 1907)
*Der Glücksnarr (Vienna, 1908)
*Kreolenblut (Hamburg
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, 1911)
*Der Märchenprinz (Hannover
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, 1914)
*Das Dreimäderlhaus
''Das Dreimäderlhaus'' (''House of the Three Girls''), adapted into English-language versions as ''Blossom Time'' and ''Lilac Time'', is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by Heinrich Berté (1857–1924), ...
(Vienna, 1916; with music by Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
)
*Lenz und Liebe (Budapest
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, 1917; with music by Franz Schubert)
*Die drei Kavaliere (Vienna, 1919)
*Coulissengeheimnisse (Hamburg, 1920
References
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berte, Heinrich 1858 births 1924 deaths 19th-century Austrian people 20th-century Austrian people 19th-century Hungarian people 20th-century Hungarian people 19th-century classical composers 20th-century classical composers Austrian Romantic composers Austrian opera composers Male opera composers Jewish classical composers Hungarian classical composers Hungarian male classical composers Austrian male classical composers Hungarian Jews People from Hlohovec 20th-century Hungarian male musicians 19th-century male musicians Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery