Rudolf Sieczyński
Rudolf Sieczyński (February 23, 1879, Vienna – May 5, 1952, Vienna) was an Austrian composer of Polish ancestry. His fame today rests almost exclusively on the nostalgic Viennese song Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Vienna, City of My Dreams), whose melody and lyrics he wrote in 1914. A well-known recording was made in 1957 by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with Otto Ackermann conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. The song was featured in the soundtrack of the Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut.
External links
- German lyrics of selected songs, with English translation
- Free scores by Rudolf Sieczyński at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Categories:
- 1879 births
- 1952 deaths
- 19th-century Austrian classical composers
- 19th-century Austrian male composers
- 20th-century Austrian classical composers
- 20th-century Austrian male composers
- Austrian male classical composers
- Austrian Romantic composers
- Musicians from Vienna
- Musicians from Vilnius
- Poles in Austria-Hungary
- Polish male classical composers
- Polish Romantic composers
- Composers from Vienna
- Wienerlied
- Burials at the Hietzing Cemetery
- Austrian composer stubs
- Songwriter stubs