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Paul Tietjens

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Composer 1877–1943

Paul Tietjens (; May 22, 1877 – November 25, 1943) was an American composer of the early twentieth century. He is best known for composing music for The Wizard of Oz, the 1902 stage adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, one of the great popular hits of its era. Tietjens was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. At age 15 he appeared as a piano soloist with the St. Louis Symphony. He later studied in Europe with Hugo Kaun, Harold Bauer, and Theodor Leschetizky. Early in his career, Tietjens's ambition was to establish himself as a successful composer of comic operas and operettas. He approached L. Frank Baum in March 1901, not long after the publication and success of Th…

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The Wizard Of Oz

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  • The Wizard , based of course on L. Frank Baum’s children’s tale, was from the start Baum’s project. He wrote book and lyrics to Paul Tietjens’ music, following his original storyline: Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion (a pantomime animal, rather like Evangeline ’s heifer) set off on a quest that ends with Dorothy’s ret…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • A. Baldwin Sloane, whom we just met replacing Paul Tietjens on The Wizard of Oz , was no longhair. Yet when he and Sydney Rosenfeld built The Mocking Bird (1902) around the old number that opera sopranos favored when asked to sing something “popular,” it was “a romantic comic opera.” True, “Listen To the Mocking Bird” no longer holds any…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt

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