Paul Burkhard
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Paul Burkhard
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Paul Burkhard was a Swiss composer. He primarily wrote oratorios, musicals and operettas. The contemporaneous and similarly named Swiss composer Willy Burkhard was no relation to him. Probably his most famous artistic creation was the song "O mein Papa" about the death of a beloved clown-father, written for the musical Der schwarze Hecht that premiered in April 1939. The song rose to #1 on the Sheet Music Chart and stayed in the chart for 26 weeks. The song has been performed and recorded by num
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Swiss composer (1911–1977)
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2024-04-11T05:06:08Z
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