Herbert Rehbein
Herbert Rehbein ( born April 15, 1922 in Hamburg, † July 28, 1979 in Basel Brother Wood, Switzerland ) was a German violinist, orchestra leader, arranger and composer. Together with Bert Kaempfert he created worldwide hits for artists such as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. His well-rehearsed with his own orchestra instrumental works are the Easy Listening attributed. International attention was his composition of the Olympic Fanfare for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Life
Born in Hamburg in 1922 Herbert Rehbein already showed great interest in music as a child. Although his parents supported his musical talent, but gave him not the desired expensive piano, but a cheaper violin. Since the age of nine, he studied classical music lessons at the Hamburg Conservatory and practiced pieces for violin by composers such as Brahms, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky.
1941, at the age of 19 years, Rehbein received his call- up for military service. According to his musical abilities, he was assigned to a military band and initially stationed in Crete. Later in the war he came to Yugoslavia, where he was taken prisoner. During his three-year internment in Belgrade, he was allowed to take his violin and was able to perfect his skills further. At the end of the war he got a job as a solo violinist and soon worked as director of the orchestra of Radio Belgrade. Rehbein remained until 1952, in Belgrade. During this time, his musical interest from classical music developed towards the big band sound of the great American swing orchestra. Back in Germany he worked for various German Radio Orchestra as solo violinist and as a composer and arranger.
1951 Rehbein met the musician Bert Kaempfert know. The two worked closely together in the coming years and there arose a variety of international hits. In addition, both were on friendly terms with each other. At the beginning of the 1960s, they learned Milt Gabler by the American record company Decca know who helped them to market their songs on the American market. One of the outstanding songs on this time together Strangers in the Night is one whose interpretation of Frank Sinatra to a worldwide hit was. More songs for Sinatra as The World We Knew, My Way of Life, You Turned My World Around, Sweet Lady Mary and followed. Other American stars sang songs from the common spring of Kaempfert and Rehbein. These include Dean Martin I Can not Help Remembering You and Welcome to My Heart, Sammy Davis Jr. with Lonely Is the Name and Al Martino with the original published as Moon Over Naples Title Spanish Eyes and Goodbye.
Rehbein lived since the 1960s in Switzerland and run a few years, the Radio Orchestra of Basel. In addition, Rehbein produced four albums with instrumental music. One of his most famous compositions is the Olympic Fanfare for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Rehbein composed or arranged many pieces for well-known artists of his time. These include opera stars like Hermann Prey and Lisa della Casa as well as the pop singer Vico Torriani and Karel Gott.
For Hildegard Knef he arranged in 1976 on the LP With you it was always so beautiful famous German Schlager new. 1977 was created in collaboration with Su Kramer LP The two faces. With his own orchestra, he published in 1978 Instrumentalhit Beautiful Morning, in which he combined, and in 1978 he arranged for the producer Armand Volker known carols for the LP "Christmas in Guitar Sound" which were interpreted by Barry Lyndon with his electric guitar bird sounds with strings.
Rehbein died in 1979 in Switzerland from lung cancer. He was married to Ruth Well stone since 1955. Their son Jürg Rehbein living as a painter in the United States. Herbert Rehbein was recorded posthumously in 1993 along with Bert Kaempfert into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.