http://operetta-research-center.org/berlins-entertainment-industry-1920s-seen-willy-romer-sheet-music-covers/ The #1 Archive for Musical Theater Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://operetta-research-center.org/berlins-entertainment-industry-1920s-seen-willy-romer-sheet-music-covers/#comment-11210 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 01:23:35 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16783#comment-11210 Odd, that a book and an exhibition devoted to sheet music cover art would not mention the artists’ names. Illustrations by two of the leading German sheet music artists of the time — Wolfgang Ortmann and Willi Herzig — appear in this post. (The former was my grandfather.) For those with an interest in this genre of art, the indispensable resource is the website imagesmusicales, which features the 10,000 or so examples collected by a Belgian couple, Frank and Divine Lateur.

]]> http://operetta-research-center.org/berlins-entertainment-industry-1920s-seen-willy-romer-sheet-music-covers/#comment-6217 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 21:46:09 +0000 http://operetta-research-center.org/?p=16783#comment-6217 ..und plötzlich tät’ ich nichts lieber als einen Flug nach Berlin zu buchen, zum Symposium und zur Ausstellung zu gehen und im Dussmann besagte Bücher zu kaufen.. Herzliche Grüße!

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