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Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) [1] was a Hungarian-born American composer. He is best known for his musicals and operettas, particularly The Student Prince (1924), The Desert Song (1926) and The New Moon (1928).
Sigmund Romberg (born July 29, 1887, Nagykanizsa, Austria-Hungary [now in Hungary]—died November 9, 1951, New York, New York, U.S.) was a Hungarian-born American composer whose works include several successful operettas.
Perhaps the most prolific Broadway composer of the 1910s and among the most successful of the 1920s, Romberg resurrected the Viennese operetta style of musical theater pioneered by Victor Herbert in the long-running (and frequently revived) shows The Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon, which contained such standards as “Softly, as...
Sigmund Romberg was an Austro-Hungarian composer best known for his musicals and operettas. Over the course of his prolific career he composed nearly 60 works for musical theater as well as music for revues, and musical comedies.
Sigmund Romberg was a prolific composer of the early 20th century whose romantic operettas touched the hearts of many. He is best known for The Student Prince (1924) and other favorites including Blossom Time (1921), The Desert Song (1926), and The New Moon (1928).
Sigmund Romberg. Inductee. 1887- 1951 Born/Died. 1970 Inducted. Wrote "Lover, Come Back To Me" with Oscar Hammerstein II. Sigmund Romberg was born on July 29,1887 in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. He showed musical ability at an early age, but his parents wanted him to go into something more sensible.
Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) was an American composer and conductor of Hungarian birth. Born into a cultured Jewish household, his father spoke four languages and played piano, while his mother wrote short stories and poetry.
Sigmund Romberg was born in Hungary on 29 July 1887. After moving to America he wrote some of the greatest Broadway operetta hits of the 1920s, among them "The Student Prince" and "Desert Song."
Sigmund Romberg. Hungarian born composer, Sigmund Romberg , as so often happened, was encouraged by his parents to study for a “sensible” occupation, and was sent to Vienna to study engineering. While there Sigmund immersed himself in the rich and active musical scene, and studied composition.
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.