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As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Béla, who was Jewish, started touring abroad.<ref name="Gilliam1994">{{cite book|author=Bryan Randolph Gilliam|title=Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wc7Yep5jcoYC&pg=PA115|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-42012-9|page=115}}</ref> In 1935 he travelled to [[Buenos Aires]], where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in [[La Falda]], [[Argentina]], in 1978. |
As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Béla, who was Jewish, started touring abroad.<ref name="Gilliam1994">{{cite book|author=Bryan Randolph Gilliam|title=Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wc7Yep5jcoYC&pg=PA115|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-42012-9|page=115}}</ref> In 1935 he travelled to [[Buenos Aires]], where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in [[La Falda]], [[Argentina]], in 1978. |
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Among the many musicians who played with him or in his orchestra were the pianist and composer [[Franz Grothe]],<ref name="bio">{{cite book | title=Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie | publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag | author=Vierhaus Rudolf | year=2003 | pages=191}}</ref> the jazz-musicians [[Rudi Anhang]] and [[Kurt Hohenberger]], the singer [[Rex Allen]] and the banjo-player [[Mike Danzi]], composers [[Wilhelm Grosz]] and [[Willy Engel-Berger]], actors [[Marta Eggerth]] and [[Max Hansen (tenor)|Max Hansen]]. |
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Revision as of 23:10, 6 February 2016
Dajos Béla (birth name Leon Golzmann, 19 December 1897 – 5 December 1978) was a Russian violinist and band-leader.
Career
Golzmann was born in Kiev, now part of the Ukraine, of a Russian father and Hungarian mother.[1] He served as a soldier during World War I, after which he studied music in Moscow. He then continued his studies in Berlin, where he started playing in local venues. He was contacted by Carl Lindström AG to make recordings and started his own salon orchestra, at which period he changed his name to the more Hungarian-sounding Dajos Béla, Hungarian or Roumanian music then being popular in Germany. Along with those of Paul Godwin and Marek Weber, his orchestra became one of the most popular in Germany and gained a high reputation abroad. He played a range of music, but for jazz music often recorded under different names, such as The Odeon Five, Mac’s Jazz Orchestra and the Clive Williams Jazzband.
As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Béla, who was Jewish, started touring abroad.[2] In 1935 he travelled to Buenos Aires, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in La Falda, Argentina, in 1978.
Among the many musicians who played with him or in his orchestra were the pianist and composer Franz Grothe,[3] the jazz-musicians Rudi Anhang and Kurt Hohenberger, the singer Rex Allen and the banjo-player Mike Danzi, composers Wilhelm Grosz and Willy Engel-Berger, actors Marta Eggerth and Max Hansen.
Select discography
- Waitin´ For The Moon / Adieu, Mimi (Shimmy) (Odeon 0-1921),
- Humming / Bummel-Petrus (Intermezzo) (Odeon A 71942), 1921
- Radio-Tango / Opern-Foxtrott in Potpourri-Form (Odeon 49039), 1925
- (as Kapelle Merton): Dinah / Sevilla (Beka B.6071), 1926
- Who ? ("Du ! Wann bist du bei mir ?") / Zwei rote Rosen, ein zarter Kuss (Odeon 0-2087), Januar 1927
- Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade / Dornröschens Brautfahrt (Odeon 0-2101), 1927
- Santa Lucia / Venezia (Odeon 0-2122), 1927
- Hund och Katt / Ref. sång (Odeon D-4948), 1929
- Kennst du das kleine Haus am Michigansee / Anna Aurora (Odeon D-4975), 1929
- (as Odeon-Tanz-Orchester und Gesang): In Sanssouci, dort wo die alte Mühle steht (Odeon O-11301), 1929
- (with Leo Frank (singer)): Im Rosengarten von Sanssouci, 1930
In addition, he made around 70 records with the tenor Richard Tauber (1891-1948) as violin soloist or orchestra director.
Sources
- Lyman, Darryl. Great Jews in Music, J. D. Publishers, 1986.
- Sadie, Stanley. The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Macmillan, 1980.
- Wolfram Knauer (1986, Pb.): Jazz in Deutschland. Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung 5. Hofheim : Wolke Verlag (in German)
References
- ^ Pekka Gronow; Ilpo Saunio (1999). International History of the Recording Industry. A&C Black. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-304-70590-0. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
- ^ Bryan Randolph Gilliam (1994). Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic. Cambridge University Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-521-42012-9.
- ^ Vierhaus Rudolf (2003). Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie. K. G. Saur Verlag. p. 191.
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