Fritz Weiss (1919, Prague - September 1944, Auschwitz)
Arrangements for the Emil Ludvik Orchestra
In Defiance of Fate
Recordings of popular works from 1940-41
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Prague's Jewish Museum CD ZMP006
  1 Kamil Béhounek: Na programu máme swing 3:02
  2 Emil Ludvík: V lednu je máj 3:15
  3 Teddy Powell : Snake Charmer 2:32
  4 Emil Ludvík: Konci den 2:22
  5 Kahn-Erdman-Meyers: Nobody's Sweetheart 3:15
  6 Hoagy Carmichael: Star dust 3:00
  7 Emil Ludvík: Slzy na poduškách 2:59
  8 Emil Ludvík: Hledám polibektvuj 3:20
  9 E. Ryerson : Boston Tea Party 2:43
10 Washington-Lara: Tropical Nights 3:00
11 Julius Fucík: Vjezd gladiátoru 2:36
12 Jan Hammer : Zamknu si dnešní den 3:20
13 Emil Ludvík: Morská nemoc 2:44
14 Petr Kareš : Probuzen ze sna 3:21
15 Emil Ludvík: Haló 832-12 2:34
16 Emil Ludvík: Rytmus v patách 2:33
17 Jirí Traxler : Honba za písnickou 2:49
18 Petr Kareš : Smutný je den 3:18
19 Emil Ludvík: Rytmus v patách 2:19
20 Emil Ludvík: Kdyby slunce zhaslo 3:17
21 Emil Ludvík: Slzy na poduškách 3:11
22 Emil Ludvík: Sem a tam 2:31
23 Petr Kareš : Mésíc šibal 3:17
24 Petr Kareš : Nikomu ani muk2:18
25 Emil Ludvík: Hvezda má mi poví 3:18
26 Petr Kareš : Daleká cesta 3:18

Total time 77:11

Prevented from performing in public after the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, Weiss continued to play, under various pseudonyms, with well-known orchestras, for whom he also often arranged various pieces. This new issue presents his arrangements for the Emil Ludvík Orchestra, with whom he worked closely (Fritz Weiss played trumpet) for two years before being deported to the Terezín ghetto in December 1941. He was later deported to Auschwitz on transport Ek on 28 September 1944, which is the last record of his fate. It is not known when or where he died.

When he was sent to the Jewish concentration camp in Terezin, he even found a way how to smuggle ready arrangements from Terezin back to Prague. He received from Prague themes and the score music paper, which was very important for him and he did his arrangements in Terezin. He founded his own band in Terezin also, and it's even documented on a film, which the Nazi propaganda ministry produced at the time under the title 'The Fuhrer Gave the Jews a City'. So the band of Fritz Weiss plays in that film as well.