Leon Jessel
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Leon Jessel, also known as Léon Jessel (January 22, 1871 – January 4, 1942), was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces.
He is best known internationally as the organiser of the popular jaunty march The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, also known as The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.
Jessel produced hundreds of light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music.
He received acclaim for a number of his operettas, including Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl), which is still popular today. Jessel was a Jew by birth (he converted to Christianity at the age of 23), and his writing came to an end, as well as his musical performances, which had been almost forgotten.
Early life and family
Leon Jessel was born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), in 1871, the son of Jewish merchant Samuel Jessel and his American wife Mary. Leon converted to Christianity in 1894, the same year he premiered his first operetta Die Brautwerbung (The Courtship) — in order to marry Clara Louise Grunewald, who was born in 1896. Maria Eva was born in 1909 and the family immigrated to Berlin in 1911. His first marriage ended in divorce in 1919. Anna Gerholdt, his second wife, was 19 years old when he married her in 1921.
Career
Despite his musical parents' wishes for him to become a merchant or businessman, Jessel was actually drawn to be a performer, and left school at the age of 17 to study music and musical theater. Jessel worked as a conductor, music director, bandmaster, and theater conductor in several German cities between 1888 and 1891.
These cities, which included Mulheim an der Ruhr, Freiberg, Kiel, Stettin, Chemnitz, and Neustrelitz, were among the many industries that included Kapellmeister in 1892. He later moved to Lübeck, where he served as Kapellmeister at the Wilhelm Theater from 1899 to 1905, whereupon he became the head of the Lübeck Liedertafel (men's singing group) club. Jessel created several choral works, operettas, and character pieces while living in Lübeck.
Jessel's 1911 debut in Berlin, where he first came into his own and made a name for himself — his 1913 operetta Die beiden Hussars) attracted a lot of attention. He continued to compose numerous operettas and Singspiel operas, the majority of which premiered in Berlin. Jessel co-founded and co-launched the first GEMA, a German performance rights group, in 1915.
Opera Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl), which premiered at the Komische Oper in Berlin in August 1917, was Jessel's highest success. The opera's touching libretto, enchanting melodies, and elegant instrumentation performed in Berlin for 900 performances, and nearly 6,000 times in Germany and abroad within the next ten years. Schwarzwaldmädel has been photographed numerous times over the years, in addition to being shot and televised many times. Jessel's 1921 operetta Die Postmeisterin (The Postmistress) was also a hit, and in total, he produced more than 200 operettas.