Recorded in 1928. Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Ernst Viebig, conducting. 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.satyr78lp.blogspot.com. (Have fun with the transaltion from German) Ernst Viebig, 1897 - 1959, was a German composer . Because of the threat of persecution of his Jewish ancestry, his promising career was through the emigration to Brazil put an abrupt end. The age of 12 played Ernst Viebig on piano improvisations on familiar songs. He studied music, he directed the composer Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek continued. Later he was allowed to Albert Einstein accompany the violin on the piano. At the outbreak of the First World War , the seventeen-year-old told the opposition of parents reported as a volunteer to serve on the front. In 1916, he came in the Battle of the Somme and in Russia for use. He returned unharmed back. His hasty decision he regretted fast, but after the war he returned to Berlin. Ernst Viebigs career as a successful conductor, composer and musical director of the Electrola records began society. He was also active as a music critic for newspapers. He was offered a position as choir master at the Lübeck municipal theater . There he learned the solo dancer Lieselotte Schmidt know and went with her first marriage a. She left him, and Viebig led a dissolute life, which sometimes made him forget the contractual obligations of its commitment, so he from Bühnenverein one year of professional ban obtained. He married in 1924 his second wife Irmgard Barbara Marks, who was employed in the house Viebig as a typist. The marriage produced two children, Susanne (1923) and Reinhart (1926) went out. With the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 worsened the conditions for Ernst Viebig. He floated in constant danger due to his membership in the Communist Party and for his " half-Jewish to be arrested "descent. After being interrogated by the Gestapo, Ernst Viebig, Germany decided to leave. On the information Karl Hellwig out a migration assistant for German in Brazil, located Viebig decided for a departure to Brazil. After a recent meeting with the parents in the Eifel spa bath Bertrich he traveled via Amsterdam to South America. The desire to establish in Brazil, which began musical career, was not realized for Ernst Viebig. Although he continued to compose even there, but found only a few private interests as a buyer. 1958 Ernst Viebig returned back to Berlin, but he could not hold more foot there. He settled in Eggenfelden in Lower Bavaria and expired on 18 September 1959. Ernst Viebig was buried in Eggenfelden. Its accompanied by ups and downs of life waiting to emigrate to Brazil Ernst Viebig has held in an autobiographical sketch, published in excerpts. Les dragons de Villars is an opéra-comique in three acts by Aimé Maillart to a libretto by Lockroy and Eugène Cormon. The story of the opera was said to have been borrowed from La Petite Fadette by Georges Sand, updated by the librettists to the time of Louis XIV. It was premiered by the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on 19 September 1856. The piece was first offered to the director of the Opéra-Comique, Émile Perrin, who found the piece too dark, even after having the composer play some of it to him. It was next offered to one of the Seveste brothers at the Théâtre-Lyrique, who also rejected it, as did their successor Pierre Pellegrin. Some years later, the authors met Léon Carvalho, who had just taken over the direction of the Théâtre-Lyrique, and who accepted the completed piece without reading a word or hearing a note. The premiere of Les dragons de Villars was very successful. It was the debut of Juliette Borghèse, who was said "to have created an enthusiasm" as Rose Friquet. The opera, which had notched up 153 performances at the Théâtre Lyrique by 1863, was to become popular throughout Europe, as well as being staged in New Orleans (1859) and New York (1868). It reached Mauritius in 1872.] Revived at the Opéra-Comique in 1868, it achieved 377 performances at that theatre by 1917. A production was also mounted at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris on 3 June 1935. Mahler conducted the piece in Budapest in 1888, and Furtwängler conducted it in Strasbourg in 1910. The opera was in the repertory of the Opéra de la Monnaie in Brussels from 1942 to 1953. More recently, it was staged in 1986 in Montpellier.

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