Oscar Straus (composer)
Oscar Straus ( born March 6, 1870 in Vienna, † January 11, 1954 in Bad Ischl, actually: Oscar Nathan Strauss ) was an Austrian composer of operettas.
Life
Oscar Strauss, son of a Jewish banker Leopold Strauss, changed his last name later in Straus, to avoid confusion with the waltz Strauss dynasty. Around the turn of the century he wrote several successful operettas, the most famous of which is A Waltz Dream in 1907, and composed later on Broadway and in Hollywood.
He studied with Max Bruch and had first minor success as Kapellmeister in Most and Teplice. In Berlin, he was the first German musical cabaret, the Überbrettl, with, there was the young Arnold Schoenberg worked for some time. After the "Anschluss " of Austria, he was forced to emigrate as a Jew in 1939 to Paris and later to New York and Hollywood. Only after the Second World War, he returned to Europe.
His grave is in the cemetery in Bad Ischl.
Originate from his first marriage to the violinist and concertmaster Nelly Irmen Katharina (1898), Louis ( 1895) and Leo Straus ( 1897-1944 ), who worked as a playwright and librettist. In 1908, Straus concluded a second marriage with the singer Clara Singer; from this marriage two sons, the composer Erwin Straus (1910-1966) and the writer and director Walter Straus ( 1913-1945 ).
Works
Operettas
- The Merry Nibelungs (1904, T.: Rideamus )
- Hugedietrichs Brautfahrt (1906, T.: Rideamus )
- A Waltz Dream (1907, T.: Felix Dormann and Leopold Jacobson )
- The brave soldier also: The praline Soldier (1908, T.: Rudolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson )
- Around the Love (1914, T.: Friedrich von Thelen, Robert Bodanzky )
- Niobe (1917 )
- The Last Waltz (1920, T.: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald )
- The Pearls of Cleopatra (1923, T.: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald )
- The Teresina (1925, T.: Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch )
- The Queen, (1927 )
- Mariette, (1928 )
- The Farmer General, (1931, T.: Julius Brammer and Gustav Beer)
- A woman who knows what she wants (1932, T.: Alfred Grünwald )
- Three Waltzes (1935, T.: Paul Knepler and Armin Robinson)
- The music comes, (1948 )
- Her first waltz (1950 )
- Bozena (1952, T.: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald )
Instrumental works
- Soundtrack to The Smiling Lieutenant (1931 )
- Soundtrack to La Ronde by Max Ophüls (1950 )