Franz Marszalek

Franz Marszalek ( born August 2, 1900 in Breslau (Silesia ), † 28 October 1975, in Cologne ) was a German conductor and composer.

Life

Marszalek studied in Breslau. After the first years of musical activity in Silesia ( as a cinema and theater conductor and Kapellmeister at the Silesian Funkstunde AG, the Wroclaw radio ), he worked from 1933 in Berlin as a conductor and arranger demand (also for the sound film ). During the war years he worked at the " Empire Broadcasting ".

From 1949 to 1965 he was the conductor of the Cologne Radio Orchestra. With this orchestra he sat at the West German Radio, Cologne (WDR ) Accents in the field of operetta, light classical music and upscale entertainment music; he used, for example, the intense work of his friend Eduard Künneke. He especially advocated for the highly esteemed by him and Walter Wilhelm Goetze Leo Fall. He put early complete recordings of The Gypsy Baron and Carnival in Rome (Johann Strauss ( son ) ), The Land of Smiles and Paganini (Franz Lehár ) and Love in the triad (Walter Wilhelm Goetze ), all with Peter Anders, before. Marszalek was considered a " walking encyclopedia operetta ". His skill and knowledge in this area are unmatched.

His recordings that stand out through natural liveliness and high quality are also remains in the repertory of radio. Commonly used by him artists include Anny Schlemm, Franz Fehring, Herta Talmar, Renate Holm, Ingeborg Hallstein, Sándor Kónya, Heinz Hoppe, Rita Bartos, Willy Hofmann, Benno Kusche, Willy Schneider and Herbert Ernst Groh. For television, Marszalek supervised in the late fifties and early sixties, the music recordings of several operetta productions (including the young Fritz Wunderlich ). Marszalek was not only an eminent operetta conductor: with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, he recorded an extensive repertoire of classical music. Again, as in the field of operetta, he played a lot of rarities.

In addition, Franz Marszalek supervised in the 1950s and 1960s, a radio broadcast of the WDR under the title Mr. Sanders opens his record cabinet, in which he presented classical music and opera in historical recordings.

His son is the cinematographer Michael Marszalek. The tomb Marszałek is located on the western cemetery in Cologne.