Richard Fall (3 April 1882 – January 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent. One of his most famous compositions is the popular Was machst du mit dem Knie lieber Hans.[1]

Life

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Born in Jevíčko, Österreich-Ungarn, Fall grew up in a family of musicians. His two brothers Leo and Siegfried as well as his father were also composers and conductors. Fall worked as operettas conductor in Berlin and Vienna and as film composer in Hollywood.

After the Anschluss (1938), he fled National Socialism to France.

On 20 November 1943 he was deported from the Drancy internment camp to the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau,[2] where he died early in January 1945, before the liberation of the concentration camp.

Works

Stage plays

Songs

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Was machst du mit dem Knie lieber Hans
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, p. 146.
  3. ^ Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945 on Amazon

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