Background
Translateur was born in Bad Carlsruhe, in the Province of Silesia (now Pokój in Poland), the natural son of Rosaline and adopted child of her later husband, the cantor Salomon Lagodzinsky.
Translateur was born in Bad Carlsruhe, in the Province of Silesia (now Pokój in Poland), the natural son of Rosaline and adopted child of her later husband, the cantor Salomon Lagodzinsky.
Today he is most famous for his Wiener Praterleben waltz, which became popular as Sportpalastwalzer in 1920s Berlin. He started his music studies in Breslau, Vienna, and Leipzig, and also learned from a French composer of dance music, Émile Waldteufel. In 1900, he moved to Berlin, where he became an orchestra conductor.
Translateur"s entertainment music became increasingly popular.
His orchestra played on international tours and even in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm World War II In 1911, he founded the "Lyra" music publishing company in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. lieutenant mostly published his own works, but also compositions by José Armandola, Marc Roland, Franz von Blon and Paul Lincke, among others
Translateur"s son Hans later joined his father in the business, and the publishing house was renamed to "Lyra Translateur & Company". After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Translateur, having been deemed a "half-Jew" (Mischling) by the Nuremberg Laws, was forced to liquidate "Lyra", and was barred from the Reich Music Chamber which meant a professional ban.
He sold his publishing house to the London publisher Bosworth in 1938.
Not much is known about what happened to him after that. He died there on March 1, 1944, at the age of sixty-eight.