Comedy Song - 13th Birthday

KORNGOLD (Korngold) Erich Wolfgang (29 V 1897, Brno - 29 XI 1957, Hollywood) - Austrian composer and conductor. The son of muses. criticism of J. Corngold. Compositions studied in Vienna under R. Fuchs, A. Tzemlinsky, G. Gredener. As a composer he made his debut in 1908 (pantomime “Bigfoot”, post. At Vienna Vienna Opera). K.'s work was formed under the influence of music by M. Reger and R. Strauss. In the beginning. 20s K. conducted in the Hamburg Mountains. the theater. Since 1927 he taught at the Vienna Academy of Music and stage. art (since 1931 professor; music theory class and conducting class). He also performed with music-critical. articles. In 1934 he emigrated to the USA, where wrote music for films. In the creative. K.'s legacy is of great value to operas, especially The Dead City (Die tote Stadt, based on the novel Dead Brugge by Rodenbach, 1920, Hamburg).Instrumented and edited a number of operettas by J. Offenbach, I. Strauss and others.