Benatzky, Ralph
BENATZKY, RALPH
BENATZKY, RALPH (1884–1957), composer. Benatzky was born in Moravske-Budejovice and studied in Prague and Munich. A composer of light music, he wrote about five thousand songs and 92 operettas. The best known was Im Weissen Roessl (1930), which became famous throughout the world as White Horse Inn. Benatzky went to live in the United States in 1938, but later returned to Europe and settled in Zurich. He wrote the scores for about 250 films.
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