Sigmund Romberg News
Hungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
- piano
- operetta
- Austria-Hungary, United States of America
- pianist, composer, screenwriter, film score composer
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2024-03-28
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] success as great as it was unexpected. Eight concerts were given to crowded houses, and the members of the orchestra were wonderfully elated. Many excellent compositions were now performed for the first time in America, among them Beethoven’s Third, Fifty, Sixth, and Seventh* Symphonies, Spohr’s Consecration of Tones, overtures by Mozart, Weber, Mendelssohn and Spohr, a large amount of chamber music, and, in connection with the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, Rosini’s “Stabat Mater,” and Romberg’s “Lay of the Bell.” The business agent of the orchestra, Mr. Helmsmüller, was at his wits’ end to plan suitable announcements for many of these concerts. At the very beginning of the series, so unexpectedly successful, he had advertised the “Farewell Concert.” Now he was obliged to follow it up with such titles as “Grand Symphonic Entertainment;” “By request, One More Concert;” “Another Farewell Concert;” “They won’t let us go,” &c. But at last […]
2023-07-28 08:30:50
On this day in 1920 the musical comedy Poor Little Ritz Girl opened on Broadway with a score shared between Sigmund Romberg and Richard Rodgers.
2023-06-14 04:00:00
Romberg: Violin Concertos (Chouchane Siranossian, Capriccio Barockorchester)
2022-02-12 10:59:27
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tuesday, February 12, 1822
Beethoven writes to his cellist friend from his Bonn days, Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841). As we mentioned in our January 6 entry, Romberg was doing a series of concerts in Vienna with his daughter Bernhardine (1803-1878) and young cellist son Karl (1811-1897). Romberg had been in the Bonn Elector’s court orchestra …
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