General Info | TEI
| Name | Prawy, Marcel |
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| ID | 2747 |
| Gender | male |
| Lifespan | 1911-12-29 - 2003-02-23 |
| Professions | musician (Q639669), university teacher (Q1622272), dramaturge |
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| Uri(s) |
https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/2746/ https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/2747/ https://d-nb.info/gnd/11943377X |
| Notes | The Jewish son of a senior ministry official in a family originally from Galicia, Prawy, loved the opera and became the private secretary of tenor Jan Kiepura whom he accompanied when emigrating to the US. Together with Georg Kreisler he participated in the entertainment of soldiers preparing for the D-Day invasion of 1944 . Back in Vienna he began popularizing US music and became known as the "Opernführer der Nation". |
Relations
Institution
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | — | attended | Camp Ritchie (Military Intelligence Training Center (MITC)) |
| 1955 | — | worked for/at | Volksoper Wien |
| 1972 | — | as chief dramaturg at | Wiener Staatsoper |
| 1976 | 1982 | taught at | Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (Vienna) |
| 1976 | 1982 | taught at | University of Vienna |
| 1993 | 2003 | stayed at | Hotel Sacher |
| — | — | attended | Gymnasium Wasagasse |
| — | — | received a doctorate in law from | University of Vienna |
| — | — | related | Jewish |
Person
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Person |
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| — | — | related >> employed by | Kiepura, Jan |
| — | — | related >> collaborated with | Kreisler, Georg |
| — | — | related >> friendship with | Bernstein, Leonard |
| — | — | related >> in a relationship with >> life partner of | Wengraf, Senta |
| — | — | related >> friendship with >> close friendship with | Eggerth, Marta |
| — | — | related >> friendship with >> close friendship with | Stolz, Robert |
Place
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Place |
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| 1911-12-29 | — | related >> born in | Vienna |
| 2003-02-23 | — | related >> died in | Vienna |
| 1938-10 | — | related >> emigrated to | United States of America |
| 1946 | — | related >> returned to | Vienna |
Work
| Start | End | Other relation type | Related Work |
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| 1956 | — | related >> staged | Kiss me, Kate |
| 1956 | — | related >> staged | Wonderful Town |
| 1968 | — | related >> staged | West Side Story |
| 1983 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | "Nun sei bedankt …“ Mein Richard-Wagner-Buch |
| 1975 | — | related >> wrote >> author of | Johann Strauss. Weltgeschichte im Walzertakt |
Label
| Label | Start | End | Label type | ISO Code |
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| Marcell Horace Frydmann Prawy | — | — | alternative name | deu |
| Marcell Horace Frydmann Ritter von Prawy | — | — | alternative name >> given name | deu |
| Prawy, Marcel | — | — | Legacy name (merge) | deu |
