German Operetta 1913 - Puppchen, du bist mein Augenstern

Puppchen, du bist mein Augenstern, aus “Puppchen” (J. Gilbert) – Proto-Orchester mit Gesang, Polyphon Record, Germany 1913 (accoustical recording) NOTE: Jean GILBERT (b. Max Winterfeld 1879 in Hamburg; d. 1942 in Buenos Aires) was a German composer, one of the founders of the Golden Age of the German operette (1890s-1920s). He was born in a family, in which almost every male member was a singer, actor or musician (the world-famous German composer Paul Dessau was his cousin). The artistically inclined relatives encouraged the inclination of the young Jean Gilbert to music. After several years of study, including Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin, who gave him lessons in composition, he excercised to become a piano virtuoso, but after some time it took him to the theater. At 18, he became Kapellmeister in Bremerhaven. In the age of 20, he moved to Hamburg to Carl Schultze-Theater as a successor of composer Leo Fall – and in the next year he was in Berlin’s renowned Apollo-Theatre, to conduct operettas by the most