- Paul Lincke
Paul Lincke (
November 7 ,1866 –September 4 ,1946 ) was a German composer. His march "Berliner Luft" ("Berlin Air") is the "hymn" ofBerlin .The march Berliner Luft comes from Lincke's 1899 operetta "Frau Luna" about a trip to the moon in a hot air balloon, where an adventurous party of prominent Berliners meet Frau Luna and her court. Other Lincke operettas include "Im Reiche des Indra" ("In the Kingdom of
Indra ") and "Lysistrata". (The latter includes the song "Glühwürmchen," translated and arranged in the 1940s byJohnny Mercer as "Glow Little Glow Worm" and performed by theMills Brothers among others.)He also composed the piece wedding dance played in Titanic 1998 version which is played while the ship is going down and in the dining room in earlier sceneselected operettas
* "Venus auf Erden" (Berlin 1897)
* "Frau Luna" (Berlin 1899)
* "Im Reiche des Indra" (Berlin 1899)
* "Lysistrata" (Berlin 1902)
* "Casanova" (Darmstadt 1913)
* "Ein Liebestraum" (Hamburg 1940)External links
* [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6Nk_Aswz8&feature=related 1941 sound film of Paul Lincke in Berlin playing piano and conducting a performance of "Glühwürmchen" with orchestra and choir]
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