- Walter Jurmann was born on October 12, 1903 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a composer and production manager, known for A Night at the Opera (1935), Judy (2019) and Tout pour l'amour (1933). He was married to Yvonne Jellinek. He died on June 17, 1971 in Budapest, Hungary.
- SpouseYvonne Jellinek(1953 - June 17, 1971) (his death)
- He and Kaper became an invitingly offer from Hollywood which they accepted. They went to the USA in 1935 where they continued there works as composers and songwriters.
- Jurmann's life took a crucial turn when a bout of pleurisy sent him to convalesce in the mountain resort town of Semmering, about 100 kilometers south of Vienna. At the Panhans Hotel, the social center of town, Jurmann began to sit in for the bar pianist. In no time at all word went around that there was music at the hotel worth listening to. When the management offered him a job, Jurmann did not hesitate.
- He was so successful in adapting his style to the French chanson genre that such songs as Le bistro du port and Rêves d'amour, which he wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Candel, are still popular in France today.
- He wrote numerous hits together with Bronislau Kaper which were interpreted by stars like the Comedian Harmonists (Veronika, der Lenz ist da), Hans Albers, Jan Kiepura and Willy Fritsch .
- The film composer Walter Jurmann was already interested in music at a young age but because at the request of his parents he studied medicine. Anyhow he did not finish the study but dedicated to the music again.
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