Carl de Groof
Carl de Groof, actually Karl Krof ( born December 3, 1923 in Vienna, † 18 January 2007 Javea, Spain) was an Austrian composer, film composer and orchestra conductor.
Life
De Groof began his career shortly after the end of World War II. In the coming years, he worked as an orchestral musician, writer of composers like Hans Lang, conductor ( 1946, in the Vienna Hofburg ) and conductor of the Vienna Boys' Choir. In 1953 he founded the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra RAVAG, later dance orchestra of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. In the same year he graduated with his own orchestra also made an appearance in the film adaptation Kästner dots and Anton.
Then they picked de Groof for the background music and arrangement by Helmut Käutner legendary guerrilla and anti-war film The Last Bridge. De Groof film remained faithful to the media / television until the late 1960s, and composed the music for a number of Austrian and German entertainment films known directors such as Georg Tressler, Rolf Thiele and Rudolf Jugert. His career ended in 1969 with the theme song to the television series The Old Judge Paul Hörbiger. A wide audience in Austria was de Groof as a long -time musical companion of Heinz Conrads known in its Sunday morning show What's new? he also played on the piano. With his own orchestra Carl de Groof also took a number of records with Viennese wine tavern songs and music, as well as numerous hit with the then very famous Egyptian singer Samira Soliman.
The disease of multiple sclerosis forced at the beginning of the 1970s, the end of compositional activity. Later in the decade, Carl de Groof moved into private life back to Spain, where he spent his remaining years in the hope that the sunny climate would slow the progression of his disease.