Henri Weiss, better known as Henri Berény and also given as Henrik Berény and Henry Bereny (1 January 1871 – 23 March 1932) was a Hungarian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, screenwriter and film director. He is best remembered as a composer of operas and operettas. The brother of composer and pianist Josef Weiss, his best known works are Lord Piccolo (also known as Little Boy Blue) and Das Mädel von Montmartre (English: The Girl from Montmartre), both of which were staged on Broadway and at theaters internationally. In addition to his work for the theatre, Berény wrote more than 300 po
Henri Weiss, better known as Henri Berény and also given as Henrik Berény and Henry Bereny (1 January 1871 – 23 March 1932) was a Hungarian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, screenwriter and film director. He is best remembered as a composer of operas and operettas. The brother of composer and pianist Josef Weiss, his best known works are Lord Piccolo (also known as Little Boy Blue) and Das Mädel von Montmartre (English: The Girl from Montmartre), both of which were staged on Broadway and at theaters internationally.
In addition to his work for the theatre, Berény wrote more than 300 popular dance works, and composed numerous songs in both classical and popular styles. He also published several ragtime piano works that were written in the style of Scott Joplin, and had a brief career as a film director and screenwriter for silent films that began with the 1907 short film The Hand. He notably directed his wife, the Danish actress Charlotte Wiehe-Berény, in the 1916 Danish film Lotte vil paa Landet.
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Life and career Born in Kassa (now Košice), Henri Berény's birth name was Henri Weiss. He was the son of Hungarian Jewish parents Emil and Charlotte Weiss. His older brother Josef Weiss was also a composer and pianist of note. He legally changed his surname to Perényi on 17 November 1899, and then altered it legally once again to Berény on 1 December 1899. Both Henri and his brother were pupils of Franz Liszt at the Budapest Conservatory in their youth. As a young adult, Berény studied violin with Joseph Joachim at the Vienna Conservatory (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). His first published compositions were art songs published in Berlin in 1893. His opera Der erste Carneval was premiered at the Hamburg State Opera in March 1898. He married the Danish actress and ballet dancer Charlotte Wiehe-Berény in Copenhagen on 7 December 1899, after which the couple resided in Paris. Der erste Carneval was staged in French at the Théâtre des Capucines in Paris in 1900 with his wife as one of the leading performers. Berény's most successful operetta, Lord Piccolo, premiered at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna, Austria, in the German language on 9…
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Partial list of operas and operettas
Der erste Carneval, opera (premiered in German in 1898, Hamburg State Opera; French language version premiered at Théâtre des Capucines, Paris, 1900)
Lord Piccolo, operetta (1910, later adapted into English as Little Boy Blue)
Das Mädel von Montmartre, operetta (premiered Neues Theater Berlin 26 October 1911; later adapted into English as The Girl from Montmartre)
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Bibliography
Blangstrup, Christian; Brøndum-Nielsen, Johannes, eds. (1928). "Wiehe-Berény, Charlotte". Salmonsens konversations Leksikon, Volume 25 (in Danish). J. H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel.
Dietz, Dan (2021). The Complete Book of 1910s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538150283.
Gänzl, Kurt (1994). "BERÉNY, Henrik [ aka BERÉNY, Henri ]". The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, Volume 1. Schirmer Books.
