Carl Michalski

Carl Michalski (18 January 1911 – 11 December 1998) was a German composer and conductor, focused on operetta and dance music.

Carl Michalski
Born(1911-01-18)18 January 1911
Bochum
Died11 December 1998(1998-12-11) (aged 87)
Bad Wiessee
Occupations
  • Conductor
  • Composer
Organizations

Career
Program booklet for the operetta Gitta (1942)

Born in Bochum,[1] Michalski was a student of Leopold Reichwein. He worked as the Kapellmeister at the Schauspielhaus Bochum from 1932 to 1934. He was conductor of the Münchener Tanzrundfunkorchester, an orchestra dedicated to swing and dance music, of the broadcaster Reichssender München from 1934 to 1938.[2] Simultaneously, he worked from 1934 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich as arranger, conductor and composer. He collaborated with Bernhard Stimmler, composing the operetta Gitta, which premiered at the Gärtnerplatztheater on 16 May 1942, subtitled A Journey into the Blue.[3]: 257 

All German theatres closed in summer 1944 due to World War II. From 1952, Michaslki was engaged at the reopened Gärtnerplatztheater as the "Musikalischer Oberleiter" (supervisor of music). In addition he was active in the theater administration as an assistant to the director. In 1954, he revived there the operetta Die keusche Susanne by Jean Gilbert.[4] He conducted Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate[3]: 283  in 1956 and Carl Zeller's Der Vogelhändler in 1957.[3]: 284 

As a conductor he made several recordings with the orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper, the Tanzrundfunkorchester, the Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke and the Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. He made numerous recordings of operetta excerpts, such as Leo Fall's Die Rose von Stambul with Melitta Muszely and Fritz Wunderlich, Fall's Der liebe Augustin with Christine Görner and Heinz Hoppe, and Paul Abraham's Viktoria und ihr Husar with Sári Barabás and Hoppe.[5] A recording of spirituals sung by George London, with members of the orchestra of Bayerischer Rundfunk, was reissued by Deutsche Grammophon in 2006.[6]

Michalski died in Bad Wiessee.[1]

Literature
  • Wilhelm Kosch (editor): Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Volume II: Hurka–Pallenberg. Berlin 2011 (Walter de Gruyter), ISBN 978-3-907820-28-5, p. 1466.

References
  1. "Michalski, Carl". University of Munich (in German). Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  2. "Michalski, Carl". grammophon-platten.de (in German). Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  3. Siedhoff, Thomas, ed. (2020). Gärtnerplatztheater / Repertoire der Spielzeiten 1918/19–1930/31 / Eine chronologische Dokumentation (PDF). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. Griffel, Margaret Ross (2018). "Keusche Susanne, Die". Operas in German: A Dictionary. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-44-224797-0.
  5. "Carl Michalski / 1911-1998". muziekweb.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 24 February 2020.
  6. "Michalski, Carl". Deutsche Grammophon (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2020.
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