Gently My Songs Entreat

1933 film

Gently My Songs Entreat

Directed by| Willi Forst
Written by| Walter Reisch
Willi Forst
Produced by| Gregor Rabinovitch
Starring| Marta Eggerth
Luise Ullrich
Hans Jaray
Hans Moser
Cinematography| Albert Benitz
Franz Planer
Edited by| Viktor Gertler
Music by| Willy Schmidt-Gentner

Production
company

Cine-Allianz Tonfilm

Release date

* 8 September 1933 (1933-09-08)

Running time

| 85 minutes
Countries| Austria
Germany
Language| German

Gently My Songs Entreat (German: Leise flehen meine Lieder) is a 1933 Austrian-German musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Marta Eggerth, Luise Ullrich and Hans Jaray. The film was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with art direction by Julius von Borsody. The film is a biopic of the composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828).[1] It was Forst's directorial debut.[2] A British version was made called Unfinished Symphony. The German title refers to the first line of the Lied "Ständchen" (Serenade) from Schubert's collection Schwanengesang, "the most famous serenade in the world",[3] which Eggerth performs in the film.

## Cast

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* Marta Eggerth as Countess Eszterhazy
* Luise Ullrich as Emmi Passenter
* Hans Jaray as Franz Schubert
* Hans Moser as pawnbroker Passenter
* Otto Treßler as Count Esterhazy
* Hans Olden as Hüttenbrener
* Raoul Aslan as Salieri
* Blanka Glossy as Schubert's landlady
* Anna Kallina as Countess Kinsky
* Paul Wagner [de] as Lieutenant Folliot
* Gucki Wippel as Maria
* Ernst Arndt
* Karl Forest

## References

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1. ^ Hake p. 155
2. ^ Dassanowsky p. 7
3. ^ Leonard, James. Franz Schubert: "Ständchen" ("Leise flehen meine Lieder"), song for voice & piano (Schwanengesang), D. 957/4 at AllMusic. Retrieved 13 July 2014.

## Bibliography

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* Dassanowsky, Robert. World Film Locations: Vienna. Intellect Books, 2012.
* Hake, Sabine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.

## External links

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* Gently My Songs Entreat at IMDb
* "Leise flehen meine Lieder" on YouTube, Schubert's song, sung by Marta Eggerth
* "Leise flehen meine Lieder" on YouTube on YouTube with Hungarian subtitles

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Willi Forst filmography

* Gently My Songs Entreat (1933)
* Maskerade (1934)
* Unfinished Symphony (1934)
* Mazurka (1935)
* Court Theatre (1936)
* Tomfoolery (1936)
* Serenade (1937)
* I Am Sebastian Ott (1939)
* Bel Ami (1939)
* Operetta (1940)
* Vienna Blood (1942)
* Women Are No Angels (1943)
* Viennese Girls (1945)
* Miracles Still Happen (1951)
* The Sinner (1951)
* The White Horse Inn (1952)
* Cabaret (1954)
* The Road to Paradise (1956)
* Kaiserjäger (1956)
* The Unexcused Hour (1957)
* Vienna, City of My Dreams (1957)

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Franz Schubert

Compositions|

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* Chamber music
* Church music
* Orchestral works (Symphonies)
* Piano music (piano solo)
* Sonatas, duos and fantasies
* Songs and part-songs (song cycles)
* Stage works
* Arrangements
* Copies
* Doubtful and spurious

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* 1810
* '11
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* '13
* '14
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* '17
* '18
* '19
* '20
* '21
* '22
* '23
* '24
* '25
* '26
* '27
* '28
* undated

Publications|

* Deutsch catalogue
* opus/Deutsch number concordance
* 19th century complete edition
* New Schubert Edition

Media|

* Schubertiade
* Das Dreimäderlhaus (1916 operetta)
* Schubert at the Piano (1899 painting)
* 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition
* Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931 film)
* Gently My Songs Entreat (1933 film)
* Serenade (1940 film)
* The Great Awakening (1941 film)
* It's Only Love (1947 film)
* La Belle Meunière (1949 film)
* Franz Schubert (1953 film)
* Angeli senza paradiso (1970 film)

People|

* Eva Badura-Skoda
* Otto Erich Deutsch
* Walther Dürr
* Julius Epstein
* Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
* Max Friedlaender
* Johann Nepomuk Fuchs
* Therese Grob
* Ernst Hilmar
* Anselm Hüttenbrenner
* Eusebius Mandyczewski
* Johann Mayrhofer
* Elizabeth Norman McKay
* Gustav Nottebohm
* Wilhelm Müller
* Johann Philipp Neumann
* Brian Newbould
* Antonio Salieri
* Franz von Schober
* Ferdinand Schubert
* Johann Senn
* Joseph von Spaun
* Rita Steblin
* Johann Michael Vogl

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