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Carl Michalski (18 January 1911 – 11 December 1998) was a German composer and conductor, focused on operetta and dance music.
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Career
Born in Bochum
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, Michalski was a student of Leopold Reichwein. He worked as the Kapellmeister
( , , ), from German (chapel) and (master), literally "master of the chapel choir", designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term has evolved considerably in i ...
at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
The Schauspielhaus Bochum is one of the notable drama theatres in Germany. It is located on Königsallee in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, ...
from 1932 to 1934. He was conductor of the Münchener Tanzrundfunkorchester, an orchestra dedicated to swing and dance music, of the broadcaster Reichssender München from 1934 to 1938. Simultaneously, he worked from 1934 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz
The Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (; State Theatre at ), commonly called the Gärtnerplatztheater, is an opera house and opera company in Munich. (The "Gärtnerplatz" is an urban square in the borough Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt.) Designed by , ...
in Munich as arranger, conductor and composer. He collaborated with Bernhard Stimmler, composing the operetta ''Gitta'', which premiered at the Gärtnerplatztheater on 16 May 1942, subtitled ''A Journey into the Blue''.
All German theatres closed in summer 1944 due to World War II. From 1952, Michaslki was engaged at the reopened Gärtnerplatztheater as the "Musikalischer Oberleiter" (supervisor of music). In addition he was active in the theater administration as an assistant to the director. In 1954, he revived there the operetta '' Die keusche Susanne'' by Jean Gilbert. He conducted Cole Porter's ''Kiss Me, Kate
''Kiss Me, Kate'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew'' and the conflict on and off- ...
'' in 1956 and Carl Zeller's ''Der Vogelhändler
' (''The Bird Seller'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Zeller with a libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held based on Victor Varin's and de Biéville's ' (1857). In 1891, Helen Tretbar translated the original German libretto into English an ...
'' in 1957.
As a conductor he made several recordings with the orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper
The Vienna Volksoper (''Volksoper'' or ''Vienna People's Opera'') is an opera house in Vienna, Austria. It produces three hundred performances of twenty-five German language productions of opera, operetta, musicals, and ballet, during an annual s ...
, the Tanzrundfunkorchester, the Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke and the Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. He made numerous recordings of operetta excerpts, such as Leo Fall's '' Die Rose von Stambul'' with Melitta Muszely and Fritz Wunderlich
Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich (26 September 1930 – 17 September 1966) was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in an accident aged 35.
Biography
Wunde ...
, Fall's ' with Christine Görner and Heinz Hoppe, and Paul Abraham's '' Viktoria und ihr Husar'' with Sári Barabás and Hoppe. A recording of spirituals sung by George London, with members of the orchestra of Bayerischer Rundfunk
(; "Bavarian Broadcasting"), shortened to BR (), is a public broadcasting, public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Bavaria, Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD (b ...
, was reissued by Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon (; DGG) is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of the corporation PolyGram. Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of ...
in 2006.
Michalski died in Bad Wiessee
Bad Wiessee (Central Bavarian: ''Bad Wiessä'') is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the Miesbach (district), district of Miesbach in Upper Bavaria in Germany. Since 1922, it has been a spa town and located on the western shore of the ...
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References
Further reading
*Wilhelm Kosch
Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (2 October 1879 – 20 December 1960) was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and lexicographer. The lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the ''Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon'' is a refere ...
(editor): ''Deutsches Theater-Lexikon
The ''Deutsche Theater-Lexikon'' is, according to its subtitle, a "biography and bibliography manual". The encyclopedia lists stage actors from the German-speaking area.
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek leads the ''Deutsche Theater-Lexikon'' under ...
''. Volume II: Hurka–Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (Walter de Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Be ...
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