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Giuseppe Becce (February 3, 1877 – October 5, 1973) was an Italian-born film score composer who enriched the German cinema.
Becce was born in Lonigo/Vicenza, Italy. He showed his musical talents early and was named the director of the student musical orchestra at the Padua University when he studied geography. In 1906 he moved to Germany and studied musical composition with Arthur Nikisch and Ferruccio Busoni. In the 1913 silent movie Richard Wagner, directed by Carl Froelich, Becce played the title role and wrote the accompanying music. He continued to write such music for a series of subsequent movies. A collection of these pieces, the so-called "Kinothek" was published between 1919 and 1933 by the Verlag Schlesinger'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.
From 1915 to 1923, Becce was the director of the little orchestra of the Berlin Mozartsaal am Nollendorfplatz. After World War I, he was named to direct the music department of the Decla-Bioscop AG and chief director of its movie orchestra, later to became the Universum Film AG (UFA) orchestra. He also worked at major movie theatres as director of the orchestras, among them the UFA-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz, the Tauentzien-Palast, and the Gloria Palast. In this position he worked with the famous directors of the German silent movie era, namely Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Ernst Lubitsch, Ludwig Berger, Joe May and Berthold Viertel; he arranged and composed music for their movies. In 1920 Becce published the magazine Film-Ton-Kunst. In 1927 he published, together with Hans Erdmann and Ludwig Brav, the Allgemeines Handbuch der Filmmusik; it was based on his Kinothek, amongst other items, and enabled the pianist of silent movies to accompany movies in the generalized style and motifs of renowned composers.
The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac.
The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna and continues to be frequently revived and recorded. Film and other adaptations have also been made. Well-known music from the score includes the "Vilja Song", "Da geh' ich zu Maxim" ("You'll Find Me at Maxim's"), and the "Merry Widow Waltz".
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Richard Wagner (1913) [German intertitles with English subtitles]
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Giuseppe Becce Kinothek Excerpts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgMW1iGSR0
Giuseppe Becce Scene passionée for violin and piano Solveig Andersson and Jacob piamorex Moscovicz. Rec. in Stockholm-Sweden-EU 2010-11-11.
Die lustige Witwe Großes Potpurri 1. Teil Dr. Giuseppe Becce mit seinen TERRA Sinfonikern ODEON 2639 / Be 7356 2. Take Giuseppe Becce, Pseudonym Peter Becker, (* 3. Februar 1877 in Lonigo, Provinz Vicenza, Italien; † 5. Oktober 1973 in Berlin) war ein italienischer Filmkomponist und Schauspieler. Becce stammte aus bäuerlichen Verhältnissen in Lonigo (Vicenza, Oberitalien). Sein musikalisches Talent wurde schon als Kind entdeckt. In Padua lernte er Cello und Flöte spielen. Bereits während des Studiums der Geographie und Philologie arbeitete er im Alter von 20 Jahren als Dirigent des Universitätsorchesters. 1900 kam er nach Berlin und setzte sein Geographie-Studium fort. Er belegte aber auch Kompositionsseminare bei Arthur Nikisch und Ferruccio Busoni. Die Musik wurde immer mehr zu seinem L...
Restauriert 2011/12, eingefärbt und mit bearbeiteter originaler Orchestermusik / Restored in 2011/12, colored and with edited original orchestral music. Regisseur / Director: Carl Froelich & William Wauer Darsteller / Actors: Giuseppe Becce, Olga Engl, Miriam Horwitz, Ernst Reicher, Manny Ziener, Max Maximilian, William Wauer
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Die lustige Witwe, Fr. Lehar Dr. Giuseppe Becce mit seinen TERRA Sinfonikern ODEON 2639 / 7356 2. Take
Unknown recording date. Unknown pianist (Lillian Bryant). Unknown cellist. Thanks to Rolf for allowing me to use his excellent transfers. You can find this and many other wonderful selections and information at his website: http://www.satyr78kl.blogspot.com Translated from Dutch by Google. (I’m getting lazy.) Jonas ("Johnny") Chits , pseudonym Boris Lensky (Haarlem, 07/07/1883 - Amsterdam, 01.31.1972). Dutch violinist He was educated at the Hague Conservatory, where he won a Prix d'Excellence at the age of 15. He then went to study in Brussels with Eugène Ysaye. He played in the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The first concert master, Louis Zimmermann, fell in love with his sister (Marie Chits) and married her. Lensky was 12 years in England, took it to the stage name Boris Lensky, and m...