Biography

Robert Stolz made the Operetta in 1957 with Rudolf Weys and Robert Gilbert "Kleiner Schwindel in Paris". One of the songs is: "Verliebte muss man gar nicht erst in Stimmung bringen".

Left Berlin in 1933 after the national socialists came to power. Helped Jewish refugees to flee while based in Vienna. After Austria's Anschluss to Germany in 1938, Stolz emigrated to the United States via Switzerland and France. He worked for several years both in New York (where he performed "A Night in Vienna" at Carnegie Hall) and in Hollywood (where he was twice nominated for Academy Awards).

Austrian conductor and composer of operettas, ice revues and film music. He was the son of the composer Jacob Stolz and the pianist and music teacher Ida Stolz-Bondy. He completed his musical education in Vienna under Robert Fuchs and Engelbert Humperdinck and conducted his first performances at the Theater an der Wien of Lehar's "Merry Widow" and "Count of Luxemburg" and Oscar Strauss' "Chocolate Soldier". He composed nearly forty operettas and contributed music to Benatzky's "White Horse Inn".

After the state examination for music in 1896 he worked among others as a director of music before he was able to publish his first composition in 1903 - the operetta "Schön Lorchen". Beside it he often worked as a conductor in Berlin and Vienna.

He also contributed the film music to the post-war Austrian film. To his last cinematical works belong "Anni" (1948), "Tanz ins Glück" (1951), "Die Deutschmeister" (1955) and "Der Kongress amüsiert sich" (1965).