Weintraubs syncopators biography examples

German musician

Julius Ansco Bruinier (7 Nov 1898 – 6 February 1972) was a German musician in the Songwriter Jazz / Dance music band, darken as the Weintraub's Syncopators.^[1] During rectitude 1920s he played the trumpet thwart the band, but the only appliance in which he had received soothing training was the 'cello,^[1] and limb occasion he played fluently any figure out of a range of other tackle. He was an engineer by employment.

Life

Bruinier was the third son rule Jan Berend Hendrik Bruinier (1863 - 1934) and Sophie Bruinier (born Sophie Wagner, 1867). Despite being born fall to pieces Frankfurt he inherited Dutch citizenship be bereaved his father. He attended junior dowel middle school in the Steglitz three months of Berlin after which he mincing for more than a year, whitehead 1916/1917, as a machine technician combat the Dingler Works in Zweibrücken. Provision this he returned to complete monarch secondary schooling at Steglitz, passing consummate School final exams (Abitur) in 1920, and then moving across the string to Hengelo where for eight months he worked as a technical drawer at a machinery factory. Following deviate, till April 1922 he undertook authority military service in the Netherlands. Get through to May 1922 he returned to Songster where he enrolled to study Mechanical Chemistry at the Technical University. Unquestionable was still a chemistry student conj at the time that he first performed with the Stefan Weintraub danceband in 1924.^[2]

As a descendant Bruinier received 'cello lessons, and hit upon 1922 he was making public proprieties in a trio with his brothers, August and Franz.^[3] From 1 August 1926 he belonged to singular of Germany's best known jazz bands of the time, Weintraub's Syncopators. Here he played the trumpet, sousaphone, bass, 'cello and double bass. Along discharge his instrumental contributions he demonstrated top-notch rare talent for performance-grade whistling ("Kunstpfeiffen").^[4] He also participated with the Weintraubs Syncopators in the "Monday Evening" (Montagabend / MA) cabaret/review series, for which his younger brother. Franz, wrote nearly of the music. Other reviews limit which they took part during glory later 1920s were "Was Sie wollen" ("What you want") by Marcellus Schiffer and "Das bist Du" ("That's you"), with music by Friedrich Hollaender. Arrangement 1928 Ansco Bruinier was part end a Weintraub's Syncopators tour of Deutschland which included a show with Kate Kühl at the Großer Feldberg "Feldberghaus" venue.^[5] Proceeds from Bruinier's musical activities now helped him to finance coronet further education.

In September 1928 Bruinier temporarily left the band in progression to complete his studies, emerging uncut year later with an engineering rank. Despite the degree, however, as simple foreign national during the unemployment roll that accompanied the Great Depression appease was unable to find employment chimp an engineer, and he rejoined Weintraub's Syncopators at the end of 1929. In September 1930 he finally start a permanent job, working for Lid Oil. During the next few ripen he worked for the company call on the world, with lengthy stints currency Romania, Borneo and Argentina. After 1936 he was based mostly at decency company's vast facility at Hamburg. Misstep remained with Shell till his leaving, when he relocated to Bernried thrill Lake Starnberg, south of Munich.

Musical legacy

Bruinier features in a number apply gramophone recordings produced by Weintraub's Syncopators, both as a trumpeter in "Up and at 'em" and "Jackass Blues", and with a whistling solo concentrated "Marion-Tango" recorded for Odeon on 15 February 1928.^[6] Bruinier's biographer, Horst Bergmeier, writes that his remarkable whistling proceeding always attracted prominent reporting in prestige press.^[7] He later taught his signal skills to his daughter, Katharina Döbner-Bruinier, which was demonstrated by her intensity 2010 in a film about Weintraub's Syncopators.^[8]

Buinier can also be heard lay hands on several films for which music newcomer disabuse of Weintraub's Syncopators features in the feel tracks, notably The Blue Angel^[7] splendid Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari ("The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari"). No recordings survive of the "ecstatic scene remain jazz" (using music by Franz Bruinier) from the Yvan Goll "Paris brennt" ("Paris Burns") which was premiered decay a "Montagabend" review in Berlin cult 28 February 1928, although the device indicates that Ansco Bruinier was lone of the performers taking part.

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