Richard Fall (3 April 1882 – January 1945) was an Austrian composer and

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of Jewish descent. One of his most famous compositions is the popular ''Was machst du mit dem Knie lieber Hans''.

Life

Born in

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, Österreich-Ungarn, Fall grew up in a family of musicians. His two brothers

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and

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as well as his father were also composers and conductors. Fall worked as

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s conductor in Berlin and Vienna and as

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. After the

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(1938), he fled

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to France. On 20 November 1943 he was deported from the

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to the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he died early in January 1945, before the liberation of the concentration camp.

Works

Stage plays

*''Goldreifchen''. Fairy tale in 3 acts.

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: and Mia Ewers. UA 1909 Vienna *''Das Damenparadies''. Operetta in one act. Libretto:

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and Alfred Grünwald. UA 1911 Vienna *''Wiener Fratz''. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Ernst Klein and . UA 1912 Vienna *''Arms and the Girl''. Operetta in 2 scenes, Libretto: Austen Hurgon. UA 1912 London *''Leute vom Stand''. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Robert Bodanzky and

Fritz Grünbaum Franz Friedrich "Fritz" Grünbaum (7 April 1880 – 14 January 1941) was an History of the Jews in Austria, Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and Schlager music, popular song writer, actor, and master of ceremonies whose art collection wa ...

. UA 1913 Vienna *''Der Weltenbummler''. Operetta in one prelude and 2 acts. Libretto:

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and

Karl Lindau Karl Lindau (also Carl Lindau, born Karl Gemperle; 26 November 1853 – 15 January 1934) was an Austrian actor and writer. He excelled in comic roles at the Theater an der Wien, and wrote several plays, librettos for operettas and songs. Career ...

. UA 1915 Berlin *''Die Dame von Welt''. Operetta in 3 acts. Libretto: Fritz Löhner-Beda and Hans Kottow. UA 1917 Vienna *''Die Puppenbaronessen''. Musical comedy in 2 acts. Libretto: Alexander Engel and Fritz Grünbaum. UA 1917 Vienna *''Großstadtmärchen''. Operetta in 3 acts. Libretto: and . UA 1920 Vienna *''Im Alpenhotel''. Operetta in one act. Libretto: Julius Horst and Ernst Wengraf. UA 1921 Vienna *''Der geizige Verschwender''. Operetta in 3 acts. Libretto: and . UA 1922 Berlin *''Apollo? Nur Apollo!'' Revue in 18 scenes (together with other composers). Libretto: Fritz Grünbaum, and Fritz Löhner-Beda. UA 1925 Vienna *''Hallo! Hier Grünbaum!'' Revue. Text: Fritz Grünbaum. UA 1927 Vienna

Songs

*''Junger Mann'', text: Arthur Rebner. 1923. Verlag Gabor Steiner, N.Y. *''Liebe Katharina, komm zu mir nach China!'' Lied and Foxtrot. Text:

. 1927. Wiener Bohême Verlag *''Meine Tante, deine Tante''. One-step, text: Fritz Löhner-Beda. 1925. Wiener Bohême Verlag *''Was machst du mit dem Knie, lieber Hans''. Pasodoble, text: Fritz Löhner-Beda. 1925. Wiener Bohême Verlag *''Wenn man’s noch nie gemacht''. Foxtrot, text: Arthur Rebner. 1923. Verlag Gabor Steiner, N.Y. *''Wo sind deine Haare, August?'' Foxtrot, text: Fritz Löhner-Beda

Bibliography

Kay Weniger Kay Weniger (born 1956) is an Austrian writer of books on media issues. He published an eight-volume encyclopaedia on international film people. Biography Weniger is the son of the German stage and film actress and the Austrian stage actor ...

: ''Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945''.''Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945''
on Amazon With an introduction by

Paul Spiegel Paul Spiegel (31 December 1937, in Warendorf, Germany – 30 April 2006, in Düsseldorf, Germany) was leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) and the main spokesman of the German Judaism, Jews. He was ...

. Metropol, Berlin 2008, , .

References

External links

*
Richard Fall
on Lexm.uni-hamburg *

on musiques-regenerees.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Fall, Richard 1882 births 1945 deaths 20th-century Austrian classical composers 20th-century Austrian conductors (music) 20th-century Austrian male musicians Austrian film score composers Austrian operetta composers Austrian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Austrian male conductors (music) Austrian male film score composers People from Jevíčko Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust