Robert Leonhardt, Reiters Morgenlied (Columbia E4997, 1921)

About this film

Performer: Robert Leonhardt Matrix and take number: 86738-2 Catalog number: Columbia E4997 (10-inch 78 rpm record) Runout: 86738 Title: Reiters Morgenlied (text: Wilhelm Hauff, 1824; music: old Swabian folk song) Bariton mit Orchesterbegleitung [= baritone with orchestra accompaniment] Folk Song - German Recorded New York, NY, ca. October 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. "Reiters Morgenlied" is a popular song about a young cavalry soldier greeting the dawn of the day on which he is going to die. The recording on the other side of this disc: Andreas Hofer .

Directors & creators

Robert Leonhardt

Subjects

78rpm, Ethnic, German

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