Rudolf Friml(1879-1972)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Composer, songwriter ("Donkey Serenade", "Song of the Vagabonds") and
pianist, educated at the Prague Conservatory and a music student of
Anton Dvorak and Jiranek. He toured Europe as a concert pianist with
violinist Jan Kubelik, and then toured America in 1901 and 1906. In
1912 he replaced Victor Herbert as the composer of the score for the
Broadway musical "The Firefly". His other Broadway sage scores include
"High Jinks", "The Peasant Girl", "Katinka", "You're In Love",
"Sometime", "Glorianna", "Tumble In", "The Little Whopper", "June
Love", "The Blue Kitten", "Rose-Marie", "The Vagabond King", "No
Foolin'", "The Wild Rose", and "The Three Musketeers". He came to
Hollywood in 1934. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his chief
musical collaborators included Otto Harbach, P.G. Wodehouse, Rida
Johnson Young, Oscar Hammerstein II, Brian Hooker, Clifford Grey,
Harold Atteridge, and Dailey Paskman. His other popular-song
compositions include "Giannina Mia", "Love is Like a Firefly", "When a
Maid Comes Knocking at Your Door", "Sympathy", "Something Seems a
Tingle-ing-eling", "Love's Own Kiss", "Katinka", "Not Now But Later",
"'Tis the End, So Farewell", "Allah's Holiday", "Rackety Coo",
"L'Amour, Toujours, L'Amour", "On the Blue Lagoon", "In Love With
Love", "Somewhere in My Heart", "You're In Love", "Cutie", "The Door of
Her Dreams", "Rose-Marie", "The Mounties", "Pretty Things", "Totem
Tom-Tom", "Some Day", "Tomorrow", "Only a Rose", "Huguette Waltz",
"Love Me Tonight", "Nocturne", "Wild Rose", "One Golden Hour", "Give Me
One Hour", "March of the Musketeers", "Ma Belle", "Your Eyes", and "I
Have the Love"
