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Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) [1] was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928).
Sep 24, 2023 · Sigmund Romberg, born on July 29, 1887, was a remarkable Austro-Hungarian composer who later gained immense fame and recognition in the United States. Renowned for his contributions to musical theater, Romberg was a master composer of operettas and musicals during the early 20th century.
Sigmund Romberg (born July 29, 1887, Nagykanizsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died November 9, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American composer whose works include several successful operettas.
Jun 11, 2018 · Perhaps the most prolific Broadway composer of the 1910s and among the most successful of the 1920s, Romberg resurrected the Viennese operetta style of musical theater pioneered by Victor Herbert in the long-running (and frequently revived) shows The Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon, which contained such standards as “Softly, as...
Jul 20, 2019 · This is a production of Sigmund Romberg’s “The New Moon” as performed by the NYC Opera in 1989. This was the third of his three best known successful operettas.
Aug 15, 2015 · Sigmund Romberg was a prolific composer of the early 20th century whose romantic operettas touched the hearts of many. He is best known for The Student Prince (1924) and other favorites including Blossom Time (1921), The Desert Song (1926), and The New Moon (1928).
Sigmund Romberg was born on July 29,1887 in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. He showed musical ability at an early age, but his parents wanted him to go into something more sensible. They sent him to Vienna to study engineering, but he immersed himself in the world of Viennese music.
Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) was an American composer and conductor of Hungarian birth. Born into a cultured Jewish household, his father spoke four languages and played piano, while his mother wrote short stories and poetry.
Sigmund Romberg. Hungarian born composer, Sigmund Romberg , as so often happened, was encouraged by his parents to study for a “sensible” occupation, and was sent to Vienna to study engineering. While there Sigmund immersed himself in the rich and active musical scene, and studied composition.
Jun 2, 2001 · Sigmund Romberg was born in Hungary on 29 July 1887. After moving to America he wrote some of the greatest Broadway operetta hits of the 1920s, among them "The Student Prince" and "Desert Song."
