Zygmunt Białostocki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zygmunt Białostocki

Polish musician

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1887

Place of Birth: Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Zygmunt Białostocki

  • Zygmunt Bialostocki (15 August 1897 – c.
  • 1942) was a Polish Jewish musician.
  • He composed many popular Polish pre-war songs, and worked as conductor and a première pianist in Warsaw between the World Wars. Bialostocki was born in Bialystok, Poland.
  • Between 1925–1930 he worked as music director and conductor in the Municipal Theatre in Lódz.
  • Later he moved to Warsaw, where he worked in “revue-theaters” and cabarets (within what is known in Yiddish as kleynkunst), including Perskie Oko, Morskie Oko, Nowy Momus, and Nowy Ananas.He worked with the lyricist Zenon Friedwald (Zenon Frivald-Vardan).
  • His song M’ken nisht tsvingen tsu keyn libe was popularized by the film actor and singer Eugeniusz Bodo in the Polish version called Nie mozna kogos zmuszac do milosci.
  • His tango Rebeka, built on Chasidic motifs and sung by Chasidic Jews as zmiros was popular in nightclubs, coffee houses and restaurants across Warsaw between the wars.
  • The lyrics is by Andrzej Wlast; the song was first recorded by Zofia Terne (1932) and premiered at the Morskie Oko cabaret by Dora Kalinówna.In 1932 he was the music director and composer of the score for Biala trucizna (White Venom) movie.
  • In 1933 he worked as accompanist in the Warsaw Nowy Momus and Oasis cabarets, in the Warsaw-Prague Perskie Oko cabaret and in the Warsaw Nowy Ananas theater.
  • His musical comedy called Milosc i zloto (Love and gold), written with Józef Haftman, opened in December 1933 at the Teatr 8:30.Apart from Rebeka, Bialostocki's other szlagiery (hits) included: - foxtrots: Ach, te Rumunki, Katiusza, Andriusza, Ecie-pecie (lyrics by himself); - tangos: Jesienne marzenia, Andrusowskie tango, Pomalutku, po cichutku (lyrics by Andrzej Wlast), Szczescie trzeba rwac jak swieze wisnie and Zoboth (lyrics by W.
  • Jastrzebiec).and Choc golo lecz wesolo (lyrics by Alexander Jellin), Nasze kawalerskie, Noc jesienna (lyrics by Zbigniew Drabik Argus, 1936), Na dnie serca, Nie mozna zmuszac do milosci, Piesn o matce (Song about mother) (lyrics by Tadeusz Zeromski and Jerzy Wrzos, sung by Stefan Witas, 1933), His wife Sofia was also a composer. After the German invasion on Poland in 1939 the Bialostockis were forced to live in German-ordered ghetto in Warsaw.
  • They are mentioned about in Stanislaw Adler's Warsaw ghetto memoir. Zygmunt Bialostocki was murdered by Germans during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, most probably in 1942.

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