Hungarian-born composer Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) arrived in
America in 1909 and within eight years had achieved his first hit
musical on Broadway. This early success was soon followed by
others, and in the 1920s his popularity in musical theater was
unsurpassed. In this book, William Everett offers the first
detailed study of the gifted operetta composer, examining Romberg's
key works and musical accomplishments and demonstrating his lasting
importance in the history of American musicals. Romberg composed
nearly sixty works for musical theater as well as music for revues,
for musical comedies, and, later in life, for Hollywood films.
Everett shows how Romberg was a defining figure of American
operetta in the 1910s and 1920s (Maytime, Blossom Time, The Student
Prince), traces the new model for operetta that he developed with
Oscar Hammerstein II in the late 1920s (The Desert Song, The New
Moon), and looks at his reworked style of the 1940s (Up in Central
Park). This book offers an illuminating look at Romberg's Broadway
career and legacy.
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