Name Carl Heins | Died 1923 | |
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Carl heins goldr schen rose d or mazurka brillante op 106 no 3
Carl Heins (1859 - 10 September 1923) was a German pianist, and a composer of light salon music in classical music style. He wrote both solo piano works and parlor songs.
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- Carl heins goldr schen rose d or mazurka brillante op 106 no 3
- Carl heins am feensee by the fairy lake op 173
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Hein's pieces show a special pianoesque ability to fashion pretty melodies picturesqely in the salon style of the time. His competentcy on the keyboard led him to perform and compose. He composed the song 'Zwei Dunkle Augen', which was recorded by the tenor Fritz Wunderlich. Heins possibly had roots in Bavaria — one of his other better-known pieces is 'Die Schwarzwälder Uhr' (the Black Forest clock). Stylistically his music is similar to that of his older compatriot Carl Böhm and much of it sounds like the sort of music one might hear played on a zither in an Alpine inn.
Robert Leonhardt an operatic baritone who sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company between 1913 and 1922 made numerous recordings for many major record labels, both in Europe and in the United States. An early recording he made on Gramophone 42325 with matrix number 1113B[54] was "Zwei dunkle Augen" by Carl Heins. Leonhardt recorded it onto a 78rpm on October 1901 when he was 24.