FULL Leise flehen meine Lieder Movie Austria-Germany 1933 Martha Eggert
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Leise flehen meine Lieder
- Composer: Franz Schubert, Willy Schmidt-Gentner
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Sievering Studios, Vienna, Austria
- Recorded: 1933
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Martha Eggert
- Conductor: Willy Schmidt-Gentner
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Wiener Sängerknaben
- Stage Director: Willi Forst
- Costume Designer: Gerdago
Information about the Recording
- Date Published: 1933
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. When he is engaged as a pianist for an aristocratic soirée he doesn’t suspect how this will change his life forever and even determine his unfinished symphony.
Leise flehen meine Lieder is a 1933 Austrian-German musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Marta Eggerth, Luise Ullrich and Hans Jaray. The film was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with art direction by Julius von Borsody. The film is a biopic of the composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). It was Forst’s directorial debut. A British version was made called Unfinished Symphony. The German title refers to the first line of the Lied “Ständchen” (Serenade) from Schubert’s collection Schwanengesang, “the most famous serenade in the world”, which Eggerth performs in the film.