Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music.
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11 Facts About Robert Stolz
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Robert Stolz's father was conductor and composer Jakob Stolz, his mother was concert pianist Ida Bondy, and he was the great-nephew of the soprano Teresa Stolz.
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Robert Stolz studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Robert Fuchs and Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Robert Stolz used to travel by car between the two cities, so he smuggled Jews and political refugees across the German-Austrian border in the trunk of his limousine.
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In 1946 Robert Stolz returned to Vienna, where he lived for the rest of his life.
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Robert Stolz dedicated his first of 19 ice operettas to European Champion Eva Pawlik.
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Robert Stolz was awarded Vienna's Grand Medal of Honour, being only the second musician ever to be so honoured .
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Robert Stolz was buried near Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss II in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof, and statues to him were erected in the Wiener Stadtpark, the Prater, Berlin-Grunewald, Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, and other places across Germany and Austria.
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Robert Stolz appeared on a series of commemorative postage stamps in Austria and Germany, as well as in Hungary, Uruguay, Paraguay, North Korea and San Marino.
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Robert Stolz had one daughter from her first marriage, whom Robert Stolz adopted: Clarissa.
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Robert Stolz's grandchildren are French writer Natacha Henry and entrepreneur and financier Nick Henry-Stolz.
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