David de Groot and his orchestra: Waldteufel memories. Part 1. (1929).
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1929 - _Waldteufel Memories_ (Part 1) - Émile Waldteufel (music) - Herman Finck (Arrangement)
*David de Groot* (1871, Amsterdam - 1933, London), usually known simply as De Groot, was a Dutch-born conductor. He directed the Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra between 1909 and 1928 and also left some compositions, among them the popular tunes Valse Passionn¾ e and the Piccadilly Grill Waltz.
Born in Amsterdam in 1871 as the only son of a poor musician, de Groot, from his, childhood aspired to be a violinist. At the age of 15 his father met with an accident, which prevented him from earning his living, and the lad had to take up the task of trying to keep himself and his parents. By playing at dance halls, concerts, parties, &c, and working 15 or 16 hours a day he managed to make ends meet. Soon after he was 16, he was made leader of the Opera House at £2 a week, which was then considered a high salary. Going to London in 1900 he quickly gained success, being in great demand for concerts, parties, and hotel orchestras. Soon after the formation of the British Broadcasting Co. his orchestra was engaged as one of the chief items on the wireless programmes. He also starred in a sound film, in which his violin playing was the chief feature.
*Herman Finck* (4 November 1872 - 21 April 1939) was a British composer and conductor of Dutch extraction.
Born Hermann van der Vinck in London, he began his studies training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and established a career as the musical director at the Palace Theatre in London (from 1900 until 1920), with whose orchestra he made many virtuoso recordings. During these decades, he was also a principal conductor at the Queen's Theatre, at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and at Southport. Finck was a prolific composer throughout the 1910s and 1920s. He composed around thirty theatre shows of most types - operettas (such as _Decameron Nights),_ ballets (like _My Lady Dragon Fly),_ incidental music, revues (annual revues _Round the Map_ and _The Passing Show_ were especially popular), plus songs, "mood music" for the silent cinema and many light orchestral pieces - suites such as _Vive la Danse_ and _Marie Antoinette,_ marches such as _Pageant March, Guards Parade March, Splendour_ and _Victory_ and the individual genre movements _Dancing Daffodils, Dignity and Impudence, Land of Roses, Penguin Parade_ and _Queen of the Flowers._
Finck also conducted the first record album ever made (in 1909) of Tchaikovsky's _Nutcracker Suite._
The Palace Theatre was famous not only for its orchestra, but also for the beautiful Palace Girls, who had many dances composed by Finck in their honour. In 1911 the Palace Girls performed a song and dance number, which was originally called "Tonight", but became hugely popular as a romantic instrumental piece "In the Shadows". This is the most enduring composition of Finck, largely because "In the Shadows" was one of the last numbers played on the Titanic and has thus made its way into several Titanic collections.
Another popular song, during the World War I was "Gilbert the Filbert" (also called "The K-Nuts"). It was performed in The Passing Show of 1914 by the popular Basil Hallam, who became Captain B. H. Radford and died in 1916 when his parachute failed to open.
Finck also conducted the first London stage production of Show Boat, in 1928. This was the first production of Show Boat to include Paul Robeson in its cast.
His illustrated autobiography, _"My Melodious Memories"_ was published in 1937.
The Divine Art Recordings Group (UK and USA) released on its Diversions label, in February 2012, the first CD album dedicated to the music of Herman Finck, performed by the orchestra and principals of the Bel-Etage Theatre from Estonia, conducted by Mart Sander. In addition to Finck's most popular tunes "Gilbert the Filbert" and "In the Shadows" (vocal version), this CD also includes several popular dances, patriotic World War I songs and hits from the revues and musicals, as well as two full orchestral suites - _My Lady Dragonfly_ and the magnificently symphonic _Decameron Nights,_ which had not had a revival since 1923.
In 2012, Divine Music CD label released _The Finck Album,_ the first modern recording of Finck's music, performed by the principals and orchestra of the Bel-Etage Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia, conducted by Mart Sander.
Dear Henri, thank you for telling about David de Groot and Herman Finck !!!!!!! Your comments are always very interesting !!!!!! Warm greetings from Jytte
Dank voor het jaar van de plaat Henri !!! En voor de prachtige biografieen van David de Groot en Herman Finck !!! Het was een genot om het te lezen !!!! Dankbare groeten van Henk !!!!!