Simpsons - Homer - What Am I Gonna Do?

ABRAHAM (Abraham) Pal (2 XI 1892, Apatyn, now Yugoslavia - 6 V 1960, Hamburg) - Hungarian composer and conductor. He studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest (1910-16). In 1931-33 he worked in Berlin, after the advent of fascism he went to Vienna, then he lived in Paris, Cuba, from 1939 - in New York. The last years of his life he worked in Hamburg. To the beginning of the creative. activity wrote symph. and kamern. production . ; since 1928 he worked in the genre of operetta and musical. The author of 13 operettas, among them - “Victoria and her Hussar” (“Victoria und ihr Husar”, 1930, Budapest and Leipzig), “Flower of Hawaii” (“Blume von Hawai”, 1931, Leipzig), “Ball in Savoy” ( “Ball im Savoy”, 1932, Berlin; was staged in the USSR in 1943 in Irkutsk and other cities), “Roxy and its wonderful team” (“Roxy und ihr Wunderteam”, 1937, Vienna), etc . ; music for films (over 30), etc.