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Edmund Eysler

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Composer 1874–1949

Edmund Samuel Eysler (12 March 1874 – 4 October 1949), was an Austrian composer.

Also credited on1 work

The Blue Paradise

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  • In 1901, writer and drama critic Felix Salten presented a short-lived cabaret season – Austria’s first – in the theatre’s cellar. A more permanent cabaret known as Die Hölle (“Hell”) was opened by Sigmund and Leopold Natzler in 1906 with art nouveau décor designed by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban. With Fritz Grünbaum (1880-1941) as its…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • The fourth longest running book musical of the 1910’s, The Blue Paradise gave Sigmund Romberg his first chance to compose the kind of sentimental, romantic songs with which he would become identified. (His total Broadway output — including shows for which he shared the writing assignment — was a record 57 productions.) Adapted from Ein Ta…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Of these assignments, the adaptations had the strongest impact on Romberg’s future musical development. The three most important of them were The Blue Paradise (1915), a version of Edmund Eysler’s Ein Tag im Paradis ; Maytime (1917), based on Walter Kollo’s Wie einst im Mai ; and Blossom Time (1921), a fictionalised account of the life of…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt

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