Leo Ascher

Leo Ascher ( born August 17, 1880 in Vienna, † February 25, 1942 in New York) was an Austrian composer and lawyer.

Life

Leo Ascher, son of an umbrella factory, studied piano at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna at Hugo Reinhold and Louis Thern, composition with Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt. He also studied law and received his doctorate in 1904 at the University of Vienna to the Doctor of Laws. Bless His first operetta ' s God was premiered in 1905. From 1905 to 1932 he composed about 30 operettas.

1909/1910 Ash was musical director of the Cabaret Fledermaus together with Béla Laszky. In the 1920s, Ascher folk songs and film music began to write. After he was arrested in the Kristallnacht, emigrated after his release before the end of 1938, France and England to New York, where he lived with his wife and daughter as a lawyer for copyright issues since 1939. Although his works were also listed under the Nazis, he received no royalties. So he lived in his last years in poverty. He has written in this time patriotic songs and teaching literature for children.

He is the father of the writer Franzi Ascher.

His artistic estate is kept in Leo Ascher Centre of Operetta Music in the Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Letters, pictures, manuscripts and printed music are there worked well.

Works

Leo Ascher composed operettas, Viennese songs, songs in several languages ​​and film music.

Operettas

  • Bless God (1905 ), T: Victor Léon (October 14, 1905 Theater an der Wien, Vienna)
  • The Green Redoute (26 March 1908 Danzer's Orpheum, Vienna)
  • The poor Lori (1909 )
  • State of Siege (1909 ), T: August Neidhardt
  • Vindobona, you glorious city (July 22, 1910 in Venice, Vienna, Wien)
  • The pious Silvanus (November 3, 1910 Cabaret Fledermaus, Vienna), T: Beda - laborers
  • Rampsenit (1910 ), T: Beda - laborers
  • The Salon Miss (1910 ), T: Beda - laborers
  • Chaste Suzanne (1910 ), T: Beda - laborers
  • The Golden Garter (1 May 1911 Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna)
  • The Decoy (1912 )
  • Sovereignty waltz ( February 24, 1912, Raimund Theater, Vienna), T: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald
  • The golden Hanna (January 4, 1914 Apollo Theater, Vienna )
  • What you do not love (17 December 1914 Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna), T: Felix Dormann
  • Ambassador Leni (February 19, 1915 Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna)
  • The beautiful comedienne (1916 )
  • The soldier of Marie (1916, Berlin)
  • Brother recklessness (December 28, 1917 Citizens Theatre, Vienna), T: Julius Brammer, Alfred Grünwald
  • Egon and his wives (1917 )
  • What girls dream (1919 ), T: Leopold Jacobson, Robert Bodanzky
  • The artist Price ( 1919), T: Rudolf Austrians Horst Julius
  • Princess Friedl (1920 )
  • Barone 's Sarah (1920 ), T: August Neidhardt
  • Twelve clock at night (1920 )
  • A Year Without Love (1923 ), T: Ludwig Hirschfeld, Alfred German - German
  • Sonja (1925 ), T: Rudolf Presber; Walther Leo Stein
  • The Cupids House ( 1926), T: Bruno Hardt, Max Steiner -Kaiser
  • I love you (1926 ), T: Wilhelm Sterk
  • Ninon at the Crossroads (1926 ), T: August Neidhart, Arthur Rebner
  • La Barberina (1928 ), T: Viktor Léon
  • The king of the Moulin Rouge ( 1929), T: Julius Wilhelm, Peter Herz
  • Spring in the Vienna Woods (1930 ), T: Beda - laborers, Fritz Lunzer
  • Bravo Peggy (1932 ), T: Wilhelm Lichtenberg, Armin Robinson, Theodore Waldau
  • To a little bit of love (1936 ), T: Rudolph Lothar, Peter Herz

Songs and chansons

  • From 1000 and one night, T: Hermann Klink
  • The storm, T: Detlev von Liliencron
  • The Lercherl of Hernals
  • The Puppetry of the Marquise
  • The child soldiers
  • The flea, T: Robert Blum
  • The corporal, T: Robert Heymann
  • The new dad, T: Robert Heymann
  • The three artists, T: Eddy Beuth
  • The pious Duchess, T: Robert Heymann
  • The Duchess of Pampelona, T: Beda - laborers
  • The little Marquise
  • The beautiful woman Pollak, T: Homunculus
  • The innocence, T: Robert Heymann
  • The violin, T: Beda - laborers
  • L' appetit vient a mauyeant, T: Homunculus
  • So you should be, T: Wilhelm Sterk
  • Wiegenlied, Op 81, T: Friedrich Werner van Oesteren

Movies

  • The soldier of Marie ( 1924), directed by Erich Schoenfelder
  • Purple and blue wash (1931 ), directed by Max Neufeld
  • My Leopold (1932 ), directed by Hans Steinhoff
  • Sovereignty waltz (1935 ), directed by Max Neufeld

Honors

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