!!!Stolz, Robert

b. Graz (Styria), Aug. 25, 1880, 
d. Berlin (Germany), June 27, 1975, composer (operettas, typical 
Viennese folk-songs, political and satirical songs), conductor. The 
decisive meeting with J.  Strauss the Younger in 1899 made him turn to 
the operetta; from 1907 Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien; 1919 
international breakthrough with "Hallo, du suesse Klingelfee"; from 
1924 in Berlin. 1938 emigrated to the USA, 1946 returned to Vienna; 
1952-1971 musical director of the Vienna Ice Revue ("Wiener 
Eisrevue"); numerous guest performances abroad. Awarded the Austrian 
Decoration for Science and Art in 1975.

!Works
51 operettas and musicals: Venus in Seide; Manoeverliebe; 
Sperrsechserl; Himmelblaue Traeume; Mitternachtswalzer; Trauminsel. - 
Music for 98 sound films: Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt; Ein Tango 
fuer dich; Herbstmanoever; Deutschmeister. - Opera: Die Rosen der 
Madonna. - Approx. 1,200 songs: Im Prater bluehn wieder die Baeume; 
Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier; Wien wird bei Nacht erst schoen. - 
Orchestral music, waltzes, marches.

!Literature
G. Holm, Im Dreivierteltakt durch die Welt, 1948; W. D. 
Bruemmel and F. van Booth, R. S., 1967; O. Herbrich, R. S., 1975; 
NOeB.



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