Karl de Groof

Carl de Groof, actually, Karl Krof was an Austrian composer, film composer and orchestra conductor. De Groof began his career shortly after the end of the Second world war. In the coming years, he worked as an orchestral musician, lyricist by composers such as Hans Lang, Director of music (from 1946, in the Hofburg in Vienna) and conductor of the Vienna boys ' choir. In 1953, he founded the Symphonic jazz orchestra of the RAVAG, the later dance orchestra of the Austrian broadcasting Corporation. In the same year he completed with his own orchestra, including an appearance in the Kästner-adaptation annaluise and Anton. Then they brought in de Groof for the musical accompaniment and Arrangement by Helmut Käutners legendary partisan and anti-war film The last bridge. De Groof remained the Medium of Film / television until the end of the 1960s, faithful and composed the music to a series of Austrian and German entertainment films of well-known Directors such as Georg Tressler, Rolf Thiele, and Rudolf book. His career ended in 1969 with the title tune to the TV series, The old judge with Paul Hörbiger. To a broad audience in Austria, de Groof was also a longtime musical companion of Heinz Conrads-known, in whose Sunday morning show What's New? he also played on the piano. With his own orchestra, Carl de Groof also took a series of records with Viennese songs and Heurigen music, as well as numerous hits with the then very well-known Egyptian singer Samira Soliman.