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Hirsch, Louis A(chille)

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Hirsch, Louis A[chille] (1881–1924), composer. Born in New York, he began his career as a staff composer for the Shuberts. After contributing songs for The Golden Widow (1909) and The Girl and the Wizard (1909), his first full score was heard in He Came from Milwaukee (1910). Hirsch wrote melodies for Winter Garden revues and much of the music for the Ziegfeld Follies (1915), including the hit song “Hello, Frisco.” In all he wrote the principal scores for eighteen Broadway musicals, best remembered of which are Going Up! (1917) and Mary (1920). Many of his contemporaries felt that Hirsch's early death deprived the American musical of a composer who had not yet reached his inventive zenith.

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