Jean Gilbert

Jean Gilbert ( born February 11, 1879 in Hamburg, † December 20, 1942 in Buenos Aires; actually Max Winterfeld ) was a German composer and conductor.

Life

Jean Gilbert grew up in a family of Hamburg, in which almost all male members were singers, actors and musicians. An uncle Jean Gilbert was the concertmaster of the Royal. Prussian Court Orchestra Bernhard Dessau, the composer Paul Dessau was his cousin. The artistically inclined relatives promoted the early awakened inclination of the young Jean Gilbert to music.

After several years of study, including Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin, who gave him lessons in composition teaching, he joined with 15 years as a piano virtuoso, but after a short time it took him to the theater. At 18, he became Kapellmeister in Bremerhaven. He then moved to Hamburg to Carl Schultze Theatre, and with 20 years as the successor of Leo Fall to the central hall in Hamburg director Ernst printer. This made ​​him an operetta by a French fabric compose ( The Virgin pencil). This resulted in the change of name to Jean Gilbert. At age 21, he married a Hamburg, at the same time he completed his military service.

After a Kapellmeister at the Berlin station Apollo Theatre, where he conducted operettas by Paul Lincke, he undertook as a concert conductor on an extensive tour through Germany, Italy, France and Scandinavia until 1910 in Berlin sat down to compose again. His best known operetta The chaste Susanne (1910 ), his most famous song Puppchen, you are my eyes Stern (1912). In 1913, he was taken for a short time by the film production company Literaria film under contract.

As a Jew, he went into exile in 1933, first to Madrid, then Paris in 1939 to Argentina. There he directed the orchestra of the radio station Radio El Mundo LR 1.

His son Robert Gilbert was also a composer and writer of song lyrics ( The White Horse Inn ). He was also known as German translator and editor known ( among others, the musical Can- Can, My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly and Cabaret ).

Another son is the children 's and teen book author Henry Winterfeld.

Works (selection)

  • Car sweetheart. Musical farce.
  • Blonde rabbits. Musical farce.
  • The bride of Lucullus. Operetta in three acts.
  • The lady with the rainbow. Operetta in three acts (7 pictures).
  • The can of his Majesty. Operetta in three parts.
  • Hotel Stadt Lemberg. Musical drama in three acts and an epilogue.
  • The maiden pen.
  • The chaste Susanne, operetta in 3 acts, 1910 Magdeburg.
  • The cinema queen. Operetta.
  • The art of living. Burlesque opera in three acts.
  • Polish economy. Vaudeville farce in three acts.
  • Travel around the world in 40 days. Revue.
  • The Tango princess. Posse.
  • The lady with the rainbow, operetta, 1933
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