Benatzky, Ralph (Josef Frantisek)
Benatzky, Ralph (Josef Frantisek) [ Rudolf Benatzky] (b Maravaské-Budejovice, 1884; d Zurich, 1957). Cz. composer of nearly 100 operettas, 250 film scores, and 5,000 songs. Wrote title-song and much of the score of White Horse Inn (Im weissen Rössl, Berlin 1930). Left Austria for USA in 1938, settling in Switzerland after Second World War.
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