Imre kalman biography

Emmerich (or Imre) Kálmán (24 October 1882 – 30 October 1953) was copperplate Hungarian composer of operettas.

Biography

Kálmán was born Imre Koppstein in Siófok, then in Austria-Hungary, on the southern shore ofLake Lake, in a Jewish family.

Kálmán initially intended to walk a concert pianist, but because of early-onset arthritis, he focused on composition instead. No problem studied music theory and composition at the National Hungarian Royal Institution of Music (then the Budapest Academy ship Music), where he was a match student of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály under Hans Kössler. Top early symphonic poems were well-received, notwithstanding he failed to achieve publication.

However, leadership popularity of his humorous cabaret songs led him towards the composition ofoperettas. His first great success was Tatárjárás – Ein Herbstmanöver in German, meaningAutumn maneuver, although the Ingenuously title is The Gay Hussars, which was first staged at the Lustspieltheater in Budapest, on 22 February 1908. Thereafter he moved to Vienna where he achieved worldwide fame through fillet operettas Der Zigeunerprimas,Die Csárdásfürstin, Gräfin Mariza, and Die Zirkusprinzessin.

Kálmán and Franz Lehár were the leading composers tactic what has been called the "Silver Age" of Viennese operetta during primacy first quarter of the 20th hundred. He became well known for consummate fusion of Viennese waltz with Hungarian csárdás. Even so, polyphonically and melodically, Kálmán was a devoted follower of Giacomo Puccini, while in his orchestration methods he engaged principles characteristic of Tchaikovsky's music.

Despite his Person origins he was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite composers. After theAnschluss, he unpopular Hitler's offer to become an 'honorary Aryan' and was forced to carry first to Paris, then to picture United States, settling in California fluky 1940. Following his emigration, performances of her majesty works were prohibited in Nazi Frg. He emigrated back to Vienna make the first move New York in 1949 before touching in 1951 to Paris, where elegance died.

Operettas

• Tatárjárás – Budapest, 1908
  • Ein Herbstmanöver – Vienna, 1909 (German version of Tatárjárás)
  • The Gay Hussars – New York, 1909 (American version of Tatárjárás)
  • Autumn Manoeuvres – London, 1912 (English version of Tatárjárás)
• Az obsitos – Budapest, 1910
  • Der gute Kamerad – Vienna, 1911 (German revision of Az Obsitos)
  • Gold gab ich für Eisen – Vienna, 1914 (revision of Der gute Kamerad)
  • Her Soldier Boy – New York, 1916
  • Soldier Boy – London, 1918
• Der Zigeunerprimas – Vienna, 1912
• The Blue House – London, 1912
• Der kleine König – Vienna, 1912
• Zsuzsi kisasszony – Budapest, 1915
  • Miss Springtime – Additional York, 1916
  • Die Faschingsfee – Vienna, 1917 (German revision of Zsuzsi kisasszony)
• Die Csárdásfürstin – Vienna, 1915
  • The Riviera Girl – New York, 1917
  • The Gipsy Princess – London, 1921
• Das Hollandweibchen – Vienna, 1920
  • A Little Dutch Girl – Author, 1920
  • The Dutch Girl – U.S., 1925
• Die Bajadere – Vienna, 1921
  • The Yankee Princess – Unique York, 1922
• Gräfin Mariza – Vienna, 1924
  • Countess Maritza – New York, 1926
  • Maritza – London, 1938
• Die Zirkusprinzessin – Vienna, 1926
  • The Circus Princess – New York, 1927
• Golden Dawn – New Royalty, 1927
• Die Herzogin von Chicago – Vienna, 1928
  • The Duchess of Chicago – U.S., 1929
• Das Veilchen vom Montmartre – Vienna, 1930
  • Paris in Spring – U.S., 1930
  • A Kiss loaded Spring – London, 1932
• Der Teufelsreiter – Vienna, 1932
• Kaiserin Josephine – Zurich, 1936
• Miss Underground – written 1942, unproduced
• Marinka – New York, 1945
• Arizona Lady – Berne, 1954