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Michael Krasznay-Krausz

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Michael Krasznay-Krausz, also known as Michael Krausz, in Hungarian: Mihály Krasznai Krausz, (11 April 1897 in Pancsova, Austria-Hungary to 3 November 1940 in Budapest) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer.

Life

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Michael Krasznay-Krausz came from a Jewish family. His father was a gramophone manufacturer. At the age of 13 he began to compose. He studied counterpoint and composition at the Academy of Music in Budapest with Victor von Herzfeld, whose first student he was. Among his other teachers is Zoltán Kodály.

Initially he composed symphonic music and operas, anda fter the production of his opera Marika at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest in 1919, he moved to Vienna, where from 1923 he turned to operetta.

His first operetta, Bajazzo's Adventures, premiered on December 22, 1923 at the Johann Strauss Theater. His operetta Eine Frau von Format with Fritzi Massary was a great success in Berlin in 1927. In the early 1930s he lived in Berlin for a while, where some of his operettas were performed, however in 1933 he had to leave the city.

Dispute with Paul Abraham

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In May 1934, a court case took place between Krasznay-Krausz and Paul Abraham, in which the latter accused him of plagiarism. The dispute was about The Yellow Lily by Krasznay-Krausz (the composer called it the "Hungarian Rhapsody" to avoid the term "operetta"; it premiered on January 5, 1934 at the Budapest City Theater, the German premiere took place on May 24 at the Vienna Theater an der Wien) and Abraham's Märchen im Grand-Hotel (Fairy Tales at the Grand-Hotel), which premiered at the same Theater an der Wien two months before the German premiere of The Yellow Lily, and in which there are a number of numbers that are strikingly similar.

Krasznay-Krausz was able to prove that he had already composed the songs in question in August 1932, and the trial ended peacefully, whereby both agreed that Vienna should be reserved for Paul Abraham as the venue. The Yellow Lily was performed in Budapest in the years that followed, with a total of 20 performances.

After the success of the "musical detective novel" Dixie, which premiered on February 8, 1938, his new operetta Mädel in Danger was rehearsed at the Theater an der Wien. The premiere was set for mid/late February and the individual scenes were broadcast on the radio. However, due to the annexation of Austria, it was not performed. The Theater an der Wien was closed as a musical entertainment theater on March 17 and Krasznay-Krausz had to flee to Budapest.

His last operetta, Marion, was performed at the Budapest City Theater on March 23, 1940, but without success. The title role was played by Emmi Kosáry, who thus ended her acting career.

Michael Krasznay-Krausz died on November 3, 1940 in Budapest at the age of 43 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery on Kozma Street in Budapest.

Krasznay-Krausz is also known as the author of numerous popular songs.

Edinburgh Integration Joint Board

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The Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB) for Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership includes representatives of the City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian, as well as the voluntary sector and carers.

The EIJB has responsibility for the operational oversight, resourcing and planning of many health and social care services in Edinburgh.

Princes Street

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An attempt to build an elevated walkway along the length of Princes Street involved the planned demolition of the entire street in a radical plan published in the 1960s. The plan was unpopular but before it was abandoned in 1982, seven fine buildings were removed. The old Boots building at 102 Princes Street, with its series of statues of William Wallace, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert the Bruce, was demolished in 1965. The North British & Mercantile Insurance Company building at number 64 followed. The New Club, designed by William Burn and extended by David Bryce), and the adjacent Life Association of Scotland building by David Rhind and Sir Charles Barry also came down.[1]

Fanlights

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. . . townhouses[2], built on . . .

Original three-ringed transom windows on Regent Terrace (13); 2,5,6,8,10,14,17,18,20,21,22,26,34

House prices

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Number 6 Regent Terrace was sold for £1,500 in 1831 and £2,700 in 1877.[3] Prices then dropped as low as £1,000 before World War II and rose to £2,000 at the end of the war, £4,000 by the mid 1950s, £400,000 in 1993[3] and over £2,000,000 in 2008.[4]


 
Royal Terrace Mews, originally the stables for the street

Former residents

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The first resident was Isaac Bayley . . . .[3] . . . moved into what is now 22 (then 21) Regent Terrace in 1830.[3][5][6] The widowed duchesse de Berry, sister in law of the Duke of Angoulême, also lived at what is now 12 (then 11) Regent Terrace at that time.[6][7] Her young son, Henri, Count of Chambord grandson of Charles X and next in line after the Duke of Angoulême,[7] is said to have wept bitterly when his family left for Austria in 1832 as he had become very attached to Scotland.[3]

The painter Sir George Harvey lived at 21 Regent Terrace from 1854 to 1876. Sir George was one of the founders of the Royal Scottish Academy.[3] Sir James Puckering Gibson 1st Baronet of Regent Terrace was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1906 to 1909. He lived at 33 Regent Terrace from 1880. Sir James had no children so when he died in 1812 his title became extinct.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Brutal surgery" - how a crackpot plan to create an 'elevated walkway' almost doomed Princes Street, BP Perry, edinburghlive, 29 APR 2019
  2. ^ Listed building information for 1 and 2 Royal Terrace, Historic Environment Scotland, accessed 10 February 2018
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Mitchell , Anne (1993), "The People of Calton Hill", Mercat Press, James Thin, Edinburgh, ISBN 1-873644-18-3.
  4. ^ Sold House prices for Regent Terrace Accessed 2009-08-09
  5. ^ Newspaper article on sale of 21 Regent Terrace Diggines, Graham "For sale: tragic royals bolthole", The Scotsman, 2002-02-09 Accessed 2009-08-09
  6. ^ a b Mackenzie-Stuart, A.J., (1995), "A French King at Holyrood" John Donald Publishers Ltd., Edinburgh, ISBN 0-85976-413-3
  7. ^ a b McCormack, Léo (Spring 2014). "The French Royals' Last Return to Edinburgh". Scottish Local History (88). Scottish Local History Forum: 25–31.

55°57′17″N 3°10′38″W / 55.9546°N 3.1772°W / 55.9546; -3.1772

Curtis ref

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The Royal Engineers Journal - Volumes 35-36 - Page 347

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zNM-AQAAMAAJ 1922 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL SIR REGINALD S. CURTIS, ' K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. THE writer's first recollections of “ Reggie” Curtis are as a young officer at Chatham, a sturdy, square, strong-faced young officer— a face wrinkled with smile and ... After one and a half years as C.R.E., Edinburgh, Curtis returned to his old home at Aldershot as O.C. Troops and Companies ; some two years later the Army Signal School was formed and he was posted to it as commandant. Thence to the ...

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