Lorenz Hart

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Lorenz Milton Hart (April 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart's Broadway songwriting crew.

"Blue Moon," "Mountain Greenery," "Alleyed and Bewildered," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Bewitted, Bothered and Bewildered," "I Could Write a Book," "It Never Entered My Heart," "This Can't Be Love," "I Could Write a Book," "My Funny Valentine," "It Never Entered My Mind," "This Isn't Romantic," "Bewitched," "I Could Write a" "It's been a long time" says the author.

Personal life and death

Hart lived with his widowed mother. He was addicted to alcoholism and would often disappear and gone for weeks at a time on alcoholic binges.

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Hart suffered from depression and sadness throughout his life. His erratic behavior was often the source of friction between him and Rodgers, which culminated in a breakup of their friendship in 1943 prior to his death. Rodgers then began collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein II.

Hart died of pneumonia in New York City seven months earlier after drinking heavily. His remains are buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens County, New York. For the 1948 MGM biopic Words and Music, the circumstances of his life were heavily edited and romanticized.

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Life and career

Hart was born in Harlem, New York City, and the uncle of two sons, Max M. and Frieda (Isenberg) Hart, both of German origins, was born. He was a great-grandnephew of German poet Heinrich Heine, who died through his mother. Hart and his brother were sent by his father, a business promoter, to private schools. Teddy Hart, his older brother, went back to theatre and became a musical comedy actor. Dorothy Hart, Teddy Hart's wife, penned Lorenz Hart's biography.)

Hart received his early education from Columbia Grammar School and Columbia College in 1913, before moving to Columbia University School of Journalism, where he spent two years. Richard Rodgers was introduced to him by a friend in 1919, and the two joined forces to write songs for a number of amateur and student productions.

Hart was working with the Shubert brothers and their partners in theatre, converting German plays songs into English by 1918. In 1919, Rodgers' "Any Old Place With You" was included in the Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. Six of their songs were included in the musical comedy Poor Little Ritz Girl, which also featured Sigmund Romberg's music. They were hired to write the score for the 1925 Theatre Guild production The Garrick Gaieties, which earned them acclaim.

During a 20-year relationship that ended shortly before Hart's premature death, Rodgers and Hart wrote the song and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals. Babes in Arms, The Boys From Syracuse, Pal Joey, and On Your Toes were among the "big four" that were featured on their "big four" page. The Rodgers and Hart songs have been described as close and destined for long lives outside of the theater. Many of their songs are standard repertoire for singers and jazz instrumentalists. Hart has been described as "the expressive bard of the urban generation that flourished during the interwar years." But the "encomiums" show that Larry Hart was a poet" and that his friend and fellow writer Henry Myers disagreed with him. "Larry, in particular, was mainly a showman." If you can examine his songs properly, and for the time elude their spell, you will see that they are all supposed to be performed, as they are part of a play. Larry was a playwright."

Rodgers and Hart wrote music and lyrics for numerous films, including Love Me Tonight (1932), The Phantom President (1932), and Mississippi (1935). During the Great Depression, Hart was making $60,000 a year, and many people became a magnet for several people. He spoke at a number of large parties. He began traveling more often and became depressed from his alcoholism beginning in 1938. Nonetheless, Rodgers and Hart continued to work together through mid-1942, their last new musical performance being 1942's By Jupiter.

"The Theatre Guild announced on Saturday that Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Oscar Hammerstein II will start performing at the Guild Theatre in 1931." Rodgers brought Hammerstein on due to Hart's deteriorating mental state; Hart will admit he had trouble writing a musical in such a rural environment as Oklahoma and departed, leaving an excited Hammerstein (his own songwriting partner Jerome Kern had no involvement in the venture) to complete what would become Oklahoma. Rodgers and Hammerstein will continue to collaborate for 16 years (and beyond) following Hammerstein's death in 1960, a partnership that made the pair one of the twentieth century's most effective composition teams.

Hart, meanwhile, was greatly affected by his mother's death in late April 1943. Rodgers and Hart worked together for the final time in 1943 as a A Connecticut Yankee revival. Six new numbers, including "To Keep My Love Alive," were written for this reworked adaptation of the play; it would be Hart's last lyric. Hart had been kicked out the night of the opening and had been away for two days. He was discovered sick in a hotel room and admitted to Doctors Hospital on Upper East Side, but he died within a few days.

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