Norbert Glanzberg
| Norbert Glanzberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 October 1910 Rohatyn, then in Poland, now Ukraine |
| Died | 25 February 2001 (aged 90) Paris, France |
| Genres | Popular songs, Film Scores, Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, composer, lyricist |
| Years active | 1930–1985 |
Norbert Glanzberg (12 October 1910 in Rohatyn, Poland - 25 February 2001 in Paris, France) was a Polish-born French composer. Mostly a composer of film music and songs, he was notable for some famous songs of Édith Piaf.
Norbert Glanzberg was born from Jewish parents in Rohatyn in Galicia in the dual Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Monarchy. In 1911, his family moved to Würzburg in Bavaria, where Norbert received his first harmonica from his mother, which gave rise to the question: "Why does music laugh, why does music cry?" He entered the Conservatory of Würzburg in 1922, already a passionate, and he was appointed as assistant conductor of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1929, where he would meet Béla Bartók and Alban Berg.
Hired by the UFA (Universum Film AG) as a composer in 1930, he wrote his first film score for Billy Wilder, and the second for Max Ophüls. When the Nazi regime came into power in Germany in 1933, Joseph Goebbels referred to Glanzberg in the NSDAP newspaper, Der Angriff, as a degenerate Jewish artist. Glanzberg then went into exile in Paris.
In 1936, he met another exile in Paris: Django Reinhardt. Norbert then performed in ball-musette establishments. In 1938, he met Lily Gauty and wrote Le bonheur est entré dans mon cœur (Das Glück ist mein Herz in getreten) for her. Norbert became musical accompanist for singers performing in fashion collections shows.
In 1939, the Polish refugee Glanzberg was incorporated into the Polish army, stationed in England. In 1940, he was discharged from the army and returned to the south of France in the unoccupied zone, where he met the impresario Felix Marouani who hired him for the concert tours of Tino Rossi and Édith Piaf.
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