14 Facts About Norbert Glanzberg

Norbert Glanzberg was a Galician-born French composer.

Norbert Glanzberg was born from Jewish parents in Rohatyn in Galicia in the dual Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Monarchy.

Norbert Glanzberg wrote scores for opera music and was musical director for concerts in 1930, including ones by dancer Ellen Von Frankenberg.

Piaf's powerful voice made an impression on Norbert Glanzberg, writes biographer Carolyn Burke.

Norbert Glanzberg performed and composed songs in music-halls in Paris in the years before the war.

In 1939, Norbert Glanzberg was enlisted into the Polish army, stationed in England.

Norbert Glanzberg often writes in dismal hovels while his melodies go off to tour the world.

Norbert Glanzberg changed his name to Pierre Minet and relied on a fake French passport to travel around the country.

Norbert Glanzberg moved to Marseille, but there the Germans were conducting daily searches for Jews.

The Germans eventually invaded that part of southern France, which led Norbert Glanzberg to flee to Nice, under the protection of Tino Rossi's Corsican relatives.

Norbert Glanzberg survived the war, although between 1942 and 1944, over 75,000 Jews in France were deported to death camps in Germany.

Norbert Glanzberg helped in the release of Maurice Chevalier, who was kept in custody by a resistance movement.

From 1953, Norbert Glanzberg composed many film scores, especially for Michel Strogoff with Curd Jurgens and, in 1954, for La Goualeuse.

Norbert Glanzberg put into music, in two cycles each of ten works, songs from Berlin and romantic leader classics.