[78-L] Columbia Add-A-Part records.

[Chris Zwarg]

At 04:49 14.01.2009, you wrote:
>Fritz Rothschild seems to have been a real person, by the way..musicologist, 
>published author on items musical, and a violinist in the Kolisch Quartet. So 
>much for my wondering if it was indeed a pseudonym and if Columbia had possibly 
>acquired and dubbed the Telefunken series (maybe through Eli Oberstein).

A-ha! So maybe the "Wiener Quartett-Vereinigung" on Telefunken-Spiel-mit! is indeed Fritz Rothschild with (members of) the Kolisch Quartet under pseudonym (assuming all of these Columbias are Telefunken reissues/dubs)?! It may well be that the real names didn't appear on the original German issues because of Nazi censorship - "Wiener Quartett-Vereinigung" is apparently a ficticious name as well, at least I can't find that group on any commercial issues, nor are these Telefunkens in any way connected with Vienna. The Telefunken catalogue has many instances of Jewish names changed or simply deleted on Nazi-era labels; e.g. at some point, their "Meistersinger" Quintet becomes a quartet in catalogues and on labels to hide the presence of 2nd tenor Max Kuttner; the name of conductor Selmar Meyrowitz - ubiquitous on their early classical issues taken over from the Ultraphon repertoire - had disappeared even earlier.

Chris Zwarg