Alois Melichar
Alois Melichar (18 April 1896, in Vienna – 9 April 1976, in Munich) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger, and music critic. He was a student of Joseph Marx at the Vienna Academy of Music, then of Franz Schreker at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, but later became increasingly culturally conservative. From 1923 to 1926 Melichar was in the Caucasus, where he collected materials on Caucasian folk songs. He then lived in Berlin and Vienna. As a composer, he followed the safe footpath of Max Reger, Hans Pfitzner, and Paul Graener; he wrote a symphonic poem, Der Dom (1934); Rhapsodie über ein schwedisches Volkslied (1939); Lustspiel-Ouvertüre (1942); lieder; and film music. Under contract to UFA he composed music for many films during the National Socialist period. After World War II Melichar became increasingly polemic in his attacks on modernist music. His pamphlets include Die unteilbare Musik ("Indivisible music" 1952), Musik in der Zwangsjacke ("Music in the Straitjacket" 1958), and Schönberg und die Folgen ("Schoenberg and his Consequences" 1960). |
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-86467 | 10-in. | 12/17/1934 | Waltz time in Vienna | Florence Richardson Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Brunswick | 210½bv | 10-in. | 1929 | Carmen : Fantasia | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 211½bv | 10-in. | 1929 | Carmen : Fantasia | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 368¾bs | 12-in. | 1929 | Schwanda, the bagpipe-player | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 369½bs | 12-in. | 1929 | Schwanda, the bagpipe-player | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 873½bi | 12-in. | 1929 | Hungarian march C minor | Alois Melichar ; Städtische Oper Berlin | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 935bi | 10-in. | 1930 | Mignon : Overture, pt. 1 | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 936bi | 10-in. | 1930 | Mignon : Overture, pt. 2 | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 937bi | 12-in. | 1930 | Twin brothers : Overture | Alois Melichar ; The Opera Orchestra, Berlin-Charlottenberg | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 1073bi | 12-in. | 1930 | Capriccio italien | Alois Melichar ; The State Opera Orchestra, Berlin | Orchestra | conductor | |
Brunswick | 1074bi | 12-in. | 1930 | Eugen Onegin : Polonaise | Alois Melichar ; The State Opera Orchestra, Berlin | Orchestra | conductor | |
Gramophone | 0RA721 | 10-in. | 9/10/1935 | Serenata veneziana (Komm', Liebste, in die Gondel) | Marcel Wittrisch | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | composer, lyricist | |
Gramophone | 0RA839 | 10-in. | 10/25/1935 | Mille cherubini in coro | Beniamino Gigli ; Alois Melichar ; Staatsoper Berlin Orchestra | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | arranger, conductor | |
Gramophone | 0RA840 | 10-in. | 10/25/1935 | Non ti scordar di me | Beniamino Gigli ; Alois Melichar ; Staatsoper Berlin Orchestra | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | conductor | |
Gramophone | 0RA1309 | 10-in. | 5/24/1936 | Ave Maria | Beniamino Gigli ; Alois Melichar ; Staatskapelle Berlin | Tenor vocal solo, with vocal chorus and orchestra | conductor | |
Gramophone | 0D1684 | 10-in. | 9/6/1933 | An der Donau | Kapelle Ludwig Rüth | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | CL4800 | 10-in. | 4/10/1934 | La guerre des valses | Marcel Carivan ; Germaine Cernay | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Melichar, Alois," accessed September 4, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103339.
Melichar, Alois. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved September 4, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/103339.
"Melichar, Alois." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 4 September 2024.
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