!!!Benatzky, Ralph

b. Moravske Budějovice, Czech Republic (then Maehrisch-Budwitz), June 5, 1884, 
d. Zurich (Switzerland), Oct. 16, 1957, successful composer at the end 
of the 1920s when pastiche operettas came into fashion ("silver 
operetta era"). Began a musical career as a song writer; after moving 
to Berlin in the late 1920s he changed to the  Operetta genre; had 
tremendous success with "White Horse Inn" ("Im weissen Roessl", Berlin 
1930). 1933 B. fled from Berlin via Paris and Vienna to the USA; from 
1948 he lived in Zurich.

!Further works
operettas: Casanova, 1928; Die drei Musketiere, 1929; 
Meine Schwester und ich, 1930; Bezauberndes Fraeulein, 1933; Axel an 
der Himmelstuer 1936. - Numerous chansons and popular songs, film 
music.

!Literature
F. Hennenberg, Es muss was Wunderbares sein ... R. B., 
1998.



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