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Peter Kreuder Tanz-Orchester - Jalousie, 1938

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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music

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Peter Kreuder mit senem grossen Tanzorchester – Jalousie, Tango (J.Gade) Telefunken 1938

NOTE: Peter Kreuder was more than only a bandleader in Germany in the 1930s, he was also a fabuolous composer and a pianist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Ik_...  , who performed with the most prominent German singers of the 1930s, as Marlene Dietrich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcVVHot3ucE or Greta Keller. Born in Aachen in 1905 to family of the Operatic singer, he studied piano at the Cologne Conservatory, to continue in music academies in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. In 1925 he was employed as Kapellmeister at the Deutsches Theater München, and conducted theatre ensembles, first in Munich and then in Berlin, where he worked with Max Reinhardt. In 1930 he met with Friedrich Hollaender, whom he assisted arranging the musical score of Josef von Sternberg's film "The Blue Angel" starring Marlene Dietrich. During the decade of the 1930s, Peter Kreuder was one of the most sought-after musical film composers and bandleaders in Germany, his credits run to some 150 movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPfSctZMQAU Several songs, performed by stars like Pola Negri, Greta Keller or Marika Rökk, are popular and covered up to today ("Ich spür in mir" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSuO7... or "Nur eine stunde" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKH6... by Pola Negri, "Ich brauche keine Millionen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXu4P... by Marika Rökk, "Wenn die Sonne hinter den Dächern versinkt" and "Es kann zwischen Heute und Morgen" by Greta Keller).  His attitude towards NSDAP was ambiguous and full of unclear motivations. In 1932 Kreuder joined the Nazi Party yet two years later he withdrew from it, for unclear reasons. During all big-band era in the Third Reich he was cherished by NSDAP cultural administration and was  considered as the “German answer” to the US big band style.  In spite of his popularity in the Nazi Germany, Kreuder in 1939 emigrated to Sweden, yet his decision had not given the durable fruit, for two years later he returned to Third Reich and his career seemed to continue undisturbed until the end of the 2ndWW. In 1945 Kreuder adopted Austrian citizenship and conducted various orchestras, also in Brazil and Argentina. He died in Salzburg, Austria in 1981.

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