Robert Leonhardt, Andreas Hofer (Columbia E4997, 1921)

About this film

Performer: Robert Leonhardt Matrix and take number: 86875-2 Catalog number: Columbia E4997 (10-inch 78 rpm record) Runout: 86875 Title: Andreas Hofer (text: Julius Mosen, 1831; music: Leopold Knebelsberger, 1844) Bariton mit Orchesterbegleitung [= baritone with orchestra accompaniment] Folk Song - German Recorded New York, NY, ca. December 1920. Label printing date code: AV (= January 1921). Released in 1921. Notes Robert Leonhardt was an Austrian baritone (born 1877 in Linz, Austria – died 1923 in New York, NY, USA), who sang at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, from 1913-1918 and 1919-1922. The "Andreas-Hofer-Lied" is a popular song that celebrates Tyrolean patriot Andreas Hofer's bravely facing his execution by French Napoleonic soldiers. The recording on the other side of this disc: Reiters Morgenlied .

Directors & creators

Robert Leonhardt

Subjects

78rpm, Ethnic, German, Austrian

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