Marcel Prawy
Author
1911 – 2003
Who was Marcel Prawy?
Marcel Prawy was an Austrian dramaturg, opera connoisseur and opera critic. He was born into a Jewish Austro-Hungarian noble family and studied law, but his life belonged to the opera. He became secretary of the tenor Jan Kiepura and, together, emigrated to the USA when persecution of the Austrian Jews became unbearable in the late 1930s.
With the help of his confidante Mártha Eggerth, he became acquainted with American musicals and music in general. After the end of the Second World War, Prawy returned to Vienna and brought with him the musical Kiss Me, Kate. It was received by the Viennese with great reservation as they feared the arrival of the American-style musical would spell the end of the traditional Viennese operetta. Nonetheless, Prawy succeeded and was considered henceforth as the one who made German language musicals acceptable and popular.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1911
Vienna - Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Austria
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Feb 23, 2003
Vienna
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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