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Robert Elisabeth Stolz (German: [ˈʁoːbɐ̯t ˈʃtɔl̩ts]; 25 August 1880 – 27 June 1975) was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.
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Robert Elisabeth Stolz (German: [ˈʁoːbɐ̯t ˈʃtɔl̩ts]; 25 August 1880 – 27 June 1975) was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.
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Biography Stolz was born of musical parents in Graz. His father was conductor and composer Jakob Stolz, his mother was concert pianist Ida Bondy, and he was the great-nephew of the soprano Teresa Stolz. At the age of seven, he toured Europe as a pianist, playing Mozart. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Robert Fuchs and Engelbert Humperdinck. From 1899 he held successive conducting posts at Maribor (then called Marburg), Salzburg and Brno before succeeding Artur Bodanzky at the Theater an der Wien in 1907. There he conducted, among other pieces, the first performance of Oscar Straus's Der tapfere Soldat (The Chocolate Soldier) in 1908, before leaving in 1910 to become a freelance composer and conductor. Meanwhile, he had begun to compose operettas and individual songs and had a number of successes in these fields. After serving in the Austrian Army in World War I, Stolz devoted himself mainly to cabaret, and moved to Berlin in 1925. Around 1930, he started to compose music for films, such as the first German sound film Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt (Two Hearts in Waltz Time), of which the title-waltz rapidly became a popular favourite. Some earlier Stolz compositions, such as "Adieu, mein…
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Marriages Robert Stolz was married five times. His first and second wives (Grete Holm and Franzi Ressel), were singers. His third wife was Josephine Zernitz and the fourth was named Lilli. His fifth wife Yvonne Louise Ulrich (1912–2004), called "Einzi" or "die Einzige" for her role assisting German and Austrian artists in exile in Paris during the Second World War, was his manager until his death. She had one daughter from her first marriage, whom Robert Stolz adopted: Clarissa. Robert Stolz's grandchildren are French writer Natacha Henry and entrepreneur and financier Nick Henry-Stolz.
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Das Glücksmädel (1910) Der Tanz ins Glück (The Dance into Happiness) (1921) Im weißen Rößl (The White Horse Inn) (1930), jointly with Ralph Benatzky Wenn die kleinen Veilchen blühen (When the Little Violets Bloom or Wild Violets) (1932)
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Venus in Seide (1932) Der verlorene Walzer, a stage version of the film Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt (1933)
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Selected songs "Servus Du" (1912) words by Benno Vigny "Wien wird erst schön bei Nacht" words by Wilhelm Sterk "Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume" words by Kurt Robitschek "Das ist der Frühling in Wien" words by Arthur Rebner "Du, du, du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein." (1916) "Hallo, du süsse Klingelfee" (1919) words by Arthur Rebner "Salome, schönste Blume des Morgenlands" (1920) words by Arthur Rebner "Ich will deine Kameradin sein" words by Walter Reisch "Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau" words by Robert Gilbert "Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt" (Two Hearts in 3/4 Time) words by Walter Reisch "Das Lied ist aus" (Frag nicht warum) (1930) with words by Walter Reisch from the 1930 film The Song Is Ended directed by Géza von Bolváry
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"Wiener-Café" (Waltz) "Adieu mein kleiner Gardeoffizier" words by Walter Reisch, also known as "Goodbye" words by Harry Graham
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The Merry Wives of Vienna (1931) The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
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A Man with Heart (1932) I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are (1932)
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Honours and awards 1934: Venice International Film Festival: Great Medal (Best Musical) for Spring Parade 1941: Academy Award nomination (Best Original Song) for the song Waltzing in the clouds from Spring Parade 1945: Academy Award nomination (Best Musical) for It Happened Tomorrow 1946: Professor Honoris Causa by the Austrian Government 1947: Citizens charter of the city of Vienna 1962: Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1964: First honorary member of the Vienna Volksoper 1965: Ring of Honour of the City of Graz
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1968: Honorary Ring of Styria 1969: Film Award for many years of excellent work in German films 1969: Ring of Honor at the Bregenz Festival 1970: Honorary Citizen of the City of Vienna
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1970: Cultural honor letter of Passau 1970: Honorary Citizen of the City of Graz 1970: Honorary Medal of the City of Rotterdam 1970: Ring of Honour of Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte 1970: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1970 Honorary Medal of the City of Jerusalem 1971 Jerusalem Medal (for the flight assistance to Jewish citizens)
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Bibliography Bakshian, A. 1983. The Barbed Wire Waltz: The Memoirs of the Last Waltz King Melbourne: Robert Stolz Publishing. ISBN 0-9592017-0-X
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Robert Stolz french web site Stolz at the Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine