Joseph Schmidt – Nur will ich dir gehören, 1932

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will ich dir gehören, 1932 (K.Wilczynski & Mario von Aaken) – Joseph Schmidt put u Orchestra. LTG. Otto von Kapellmeister Dobrindt, Parlophon 1932 Joseph Schmidt (born in 1904 in Davidena, Bukovina in Romania currently d. 1942 in Camp Girenbad, Switzerland). He was a famous opera singer and XX century operetta (lyric tenor), born in Bukovina region of Middle Europe, covering the area between the Dniester River to East Carpathia. Politically, Bukovina emerges in the 14th century as the independent duchy of Moldova, in the 19 century, it is divided between Ukraine (Czarist Russia) and Galicia (the Habsburg Empire) with its capital in Czerniowce (German: Czernowitz ). Schmidt belonged to a German-speaking, assimilated Jewish family, but a multi-cultural environment of her homeland was common – in addition to his native Yiddish and Hebrew as Romanian, German, French and English. His musical talents were recognized by the master Czerniovce synagogue, who admitted to services singing as a boy alto. In Czerniowce he had his first recital of traditional Jewish songs, but also – popualr airs of Rossini, Verdi and Bizet. In the following year, he was in Berlin, taking singing lessons and piano prof. Hermann Weissenborn. Without regard to his small stature (he was a little more than 1.5 m), he was admitted to military service in Romania. During his stay in Czerniowce he sang as a cantor in the synagogue Temple. In 1929, he returned to Berlin, where Cornelis Bronsgeest …
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