Hansheinrich Dransmann (12 April 1894 – 25 November 1964) was a German
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and def ...
, conductor, cultural functionary, and theater owner.
Professional life
Dransmann studied with Franz Schreker and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was a pioneer of film music, working with avant-garde directions such as
Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for dir ...
. He joined the
SA in 1931 and the
NSDAP itself in 1932, and subsequently became a leading composer of mass propaganda works for the Third Reich after the
Machtergreifung. After 1945, his work fell into obscurity, and there were no further public performances of his music.
Selected filmography
* ''
Jimmy: The Tale of a Girl and Her Bear'' (1923)
* ''
Chamber Music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
'' (1925)
* ''
Prem Sanyas'' (1925)
* ''
The Hanseatics'' (1925)
* ''
The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store'' (1925)
* ''
Our Daily Bread'' (1926)
* ''
Give My Regards to the Blonde Child on the Rhine'' (1926)
* ''
Lord of the Night'' (1927)
* ''
Excluded from the Public'' (1927)
* ''
Thieves'' (1928)
* ''
The Sinner'' (1928)
* ''
The Story of a Little Parisian'' (1928)
* ''
When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928)
* ''
The Women's War'' (1928)
* ''
Anastasia, the False Czar's Daughter'' (1928)
* ''
Under the Lantern'' (1928)
* ''
A Better Master'' (1928)
* ''
The Page Boy at the Golden Lion'' (1928)
* ''
Eva in Silk'' (1928)
* ''
Lemke's Widow'' (1928)
* ''
Sir or Madam'' (1928)
* ''
The Woman Everyone Loves Is You'' (1929)
* ''
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria'' (1929)
* ''
The Green Monocle'' (1929)
* ''
German Wine'' (1929)
* ''
Children of the Street'' (1929)
* ''
Bobby, the Petrol Boy'' (1929)
* ''
The Circus Princess'' (1929)
* ''
The Three Kings'' (1929)
* ''
Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness'' (1929)
* ''
Waterloo'' (1929)
* ''
Daughter of the Regiment'' (1929)
References
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1894 births
1964 deaths
German composers
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