Joseph Schmidt; "Non me sceta"; Ernesto Tagliaferri

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ================ Joseph Schmidt--tenor Otto Dobrindt---conductor Orchester 1932 ================ "Born: March 4, 1904 Died: November 16, 1942 Ukrainian tenor. Josef Schmidt was a Jewish tenor and actor. He was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: Davydivka), a small town in the Bukovina province of Austria-Hungary, later Romania and now part of Ukraine. As a child of musical parents, young Josef was influenced by many cultures. In addition to his native Yiddish, he learned Hebrew and became fluent in Romanian, German, French and English. His first vocal training was as an alto boy in the Czernowitz Synagogue. His talents were quickly recognised and by 1924 he was featured in his first solo recital in Czernowitz singing traditional Jewish songs and arias by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini and Bizet. Soon he moved to Berlin and took piano and singing lessons from Professor Hermann Weissenborn. He returned to...