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Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) 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).
Apr 18, 2024 · 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. Romberg was educated in Vienna as an engineer, but he also studied composition and became a skilled violinist and organist.
Aug 15, 2015 · Aug 15, 2015 by Cynthia Collins. 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).
Jun 11, 2018 · Romberg, Sigmund , versatile Hungarian-born American operetta composer, conductor, and pianist; b. Nagykanizsa, Hungary, July 29, 1887; d. N.Y., Nov. 9, 1951. 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 ...
Sigmund Romberg. Inductee. 1887- 1951 Born/Died. 1970 Inducted. Wrote "Lover, Come Back To Me" with Oscar Hammerstein II. 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.
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 (b Nagykanizsa, Hungary, 29 July 1887; d New York, 9 November 1951) Kurt Gänzl. The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. 1 January, 2001. Romberg studied the violin in his youthful years in Hungary, but he was set at first towards an adult career in engineering.
Apr 2, 2021 · Personnel: Sonny Clark, piano. Paul Chambers, bass. Philly Joe Jones, drums. For the first installment of Origins of Bop, we looked at a 1948 bebop classic (Bird’s “Ah Leu Cha”) covered in the hard bop era (by Miles). This time, we explore a jazz standard with roots stretching back much further.
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. Romberg’s sense of melody, feeling for opulent harmony and romantic richness, and his ability to create a full-blooded ...
This chapter presents an overview of the life, professional career, and methods of Sigmund Romberg. It explains that Sigmund Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg on July 29, 1887 in Hungary, worked as a coach-accompanist in Vienna, and moved to New York to become a professional musician.
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