Background
Witt, Max Siegfried was born on November 12, 1871 in Stettin, Germany. Son of Elias and Sophie Witt.
Witt, Max Siegfried was born on November 12, 1871 in Stettin, Germany. Son of Elias and Sophie Witt.
Graduate Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium, Stettin, 1886.
Museum director in America, 1887-1900. Managing tabloid music productions in vaudeville, since 1908. Composer: (waltzes) Birth of the Rose.
Sweet Repose.
Diana; Orange Blossoms. The First Violin; Robespierre. Phyllis. (Marches): How Do You Do? Ambassador.
Commander-in-Chief.
(Pieces de Salon): Gavotte de Directoire. Henry V, danse antique. (Sacred and concert songs): The Everlasting Light.
You Are so Dear to Maine.
Love’s Four Seasons. (Popular ballads): Grace O’Moore. Don’t Let Her Lose Her Way.
My Own Colleen. The Moth and the Flame.
My Little Georgia Rose. The Only Way; My Heart’s To-Night in Texas.
When the Birds Go North Again. In the Valley Where My Sally Said Good Bye.
Foreign Love of You; Honey Bee.
Foreign Just One Kiss. (March songs): Military Mollie. Convent Bells; I Like Your Way.
(Comic opera scores): A Son of Rest, 1903, and The Duke of Duluth, 1905-1906 (books by George H. Broadhurst).
Home: New York, New New York
Married Margaret Gonzalez, 1895.