Jules Sylvain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish popular music composer
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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Jules Sylvain
- Axel Stig Hansson (11 June 1900 – 29 October 1968), known professionally as Jules Sylvain, was a Swedish composer, screenwriter and musician. Sylvain was born in Stockholm to actor Axel Hansson and actress and pedagog Valborg Hansson.
- At the age of 11, Sylvain began studying music at Lundsbergs boarding school but ran away from the school after four years.
- He studied piano lessons at Musikaliska Akademien between 1918 and 1920 and then continued to study at Music high school in Weimar between 1920 and 1922.
- He got his first income in 1918 as a café pianist in Stockholm.
- After that he worked as a musician in Germany for a few years.
- At his home coming in 1923 he made a name for himself at Kristallsalongen with the melodi Det är den dagliga dosisen som gör'et.
- During 1925 until 1928, Sylvain was employed as a chapel master for Karl Gerhard and composed a number of the singers songs.As soon as the sound-film became established Sylvain started composing film music the first melody was Säg det i toner 1929, he was also for several years a musical advisor for Svensk Filmindustri.
- Sylvain composed several operetes the most known one is Zorina which had its premiere at the Stockholmsoperan in 1943.
- Sylvain also re-worked the music for the opera "Glada Änkan" for its relaunch in 1931.
- It is not completely known as to why Stig Hansson became Jules Sylvain sometime during the 1920s.One theory is that it was Ernst Rolf who thought that a successful composer could not have such a regular name as Stig Hansson.
- Another theory is that he looked in a lexicon and got his eyes on the French composer with the name Sylvain and then combined the first name of his youth favourite author Jules Verne.
- Another is that he admired the French composer Maurice Yvain, and because of that wanted a name that sounded similar.
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