Gottfried Huppertz

Gottfried Huppertz ( born March 11, 1887 in Cologne, † February 7, 1937 in Berlin) was a German composer, singer, actor and conductor.

Life

Huppertz studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and worked during the First World War in Coburg, where he debuted in 1910 as a singer and actor. In 1920 he came as an operetta singer to Berlin at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz.

His first composition climbing roses he dedicated to the actor Rudolf Klein - Rogge, with the director Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou, who was married at the time still with Klein-Rogge, who introduced him in the early 1920s. In the film, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922 ) Huppertz starred in the role of a hotel manager as an extra.

For Lang's Die Nibelungen (1924 ) Huppertz composed then his first film score. During 1925 his music for the film to chronicle Grieshuus is published, Huppertz already working on another music for Fritz Lang, the film Metropolis (1927 ), who became his best-known film music.

In addition to film music Huppertz also wrote songs. From his music has been little published on recordings, such as the theme music for the first Karl May talkies Through the Desert (1936 ) in the Karl -May- Filmmusiksammelbox Wild West, Hot Orient.

Filmography

Works

  • " Climbing roses " ( music and lyrics ), 1905
  • " Mary's Lullaby " (from: The Youth's Magic Horn ), Op. 12; (Music by Gottfried Huppertz )
  • " Sea Song ", music for Alexander Adolfis fairy tale of the same name, Op. 18, 1918
  • " Sylph: scherzo capriccioso ", Op. 31, 1928
  • " Ecstasy fantastique " (also: Misterioso fantastico ), January 1929
  • " Grotesque " ( Danse grotesque )
  • " New Love - New Life ", factory 45, Waltz, 1935.
  • " A kiss is wonderful," Foxtrot from the Ufa - sound film "The Green Domino "
  • "Die Nibelungen " fantasy of the music for the film of the same for piano two hands, three masks = publisher = A. G., Berlin - Munich - Vienna. Copyright 1924 by Decla - Bioscope A-G. Berlin.

Media

Papers

Letters of Gottfried Huppertz are in stock at the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in Leipzig State Archives.

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