# Will Meisel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Will_Meisel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Will_Meisel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Meisel > Source revision: 1357325153 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German composer}} {{Infobox person | name = Will Meisel | image = Grab Will Meisel, Friedhof Wilmersdorf (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Grave of Will Meisel, [Berlin-Wilmersdorf](/source/Berlin-Wilmersdorf) | birth_date = 17 September 1897 | birth_place = [Berlin](/source/Berlin), [German Empire](/source/German_Empire) | death_date = {{death date and age|29 April 1967|17 September 1897}} | death_place = [Müllheim](/source/M%C3%BCllheim), [Baden-Württemberg](/source/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg)
[West Germany](/source/West_Germany) | other_names = | occupation = Composer | years_active = 1930-1955 (film) }} '''Will Meisel''' (17 September 1897 – 29 April 1967) was a German [composer](/source/composer), who wrote more than fifty [film scores](/source/film_scores) during his career. He also wrote several [operettas](/source/operettas) including ''[A Friend So Lovely as You](/source/A_Friend_So_Lovely_as_You)'' (1930) (''Eine Freundin so goldig wie du'').Grange p.343 In 1926, he founded German music publisher [Edition Meisel & Co.](/source/Meisel_Music){{cite magazine|last=Kersten|first=Peter|title=50 Years And Still No. One|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=The+Hit+Factory+-+Chronicle+of+a+Berlin+music+publisher&pg=PT67|magazine=Billboard|date=22 January 1977|access-date=8 April 2024}} He was a member of the [Nazi Party](/source/Nazi_Party) from 1933.{{cite book | last=Harding | first=Thomas | title=The House by the Lake | publisher=Random House | date=24 September 2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9rvCAAAQBAJ|access-date=27 March 2025| isbn=978-1-4735-0655-8 }} He benefitted from the Nazi policy of [aryanisation](/source/aryanisation), buying the [Alexander Haus](/source/Alexander_Haus) for a quarter of its value, after its owners, the Alexander family, had fled the country. After the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), his application for [denazification](/source/denazification) was rejected, and he was barred from running his business until 1951. His life is described in ''The House by the Lake'' (2015) by [Thomas Harding](/source/Thomas_Harding_(writer)), a non-fiction book about the Alexander House and the families who lived there.{{cite web | last=Morrison | first=Rebecca K | title=The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding review – the German 20th century story told through a single building | website=the Guardian | date=16 January 2016 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/16/house-by-the-lake-thomas-harding-review-german-history | access-date=27 March 2025}} ==Selected filmography== * ''[The Other](/source/The_Other_(1930_film))'' (1930) * ''[The Prosecutor Hallers](/source/The_Prosecutor_Hallers)'' (1930) * ''[Love in the Ring](/source/Love_in_the_Ring)'' (1930) * ''[By a Nose](/source/By_a_Nose_(1931_film))'' (1931) * ''[A Storm Over Zakopane](/source/A_Storm_Over_Zakopane)'' (1931) * ''[When the Soldiers](/source/When_the_Soldiers)'' (1931) * ''[The Unknown Guest](/source/The_Unknown_Guest_(1931_film))'' (1931) * ''[Checkmate](/source/Checkmate_(1931_film))'' (1931) * ''[A Crafty Youth](/source/A_Crafty_Youth)'' (1931) * ''[Queen of the Night](/source/Queen_of_the_Night_(1931_German-language_film))'' (1931) * ''[At Your Orders, Sergeant](/source/At_Your_Orders%2C_Sergeant)'' (1932) * ''[The Four from Bob 13](/source/The_Four_from_Bob_13)'' (1932) * ''[Tugboat M 17](/source/Tugboat_M_17)'' (1933) * ''[What Am I Without You](/source/What_Am_I_Without_You)'' (1934) * ''[The Sun Rises](/source/The_Sun_Rises_(1934_film))'' (1934) * ''[The Champion of Pontresina](/source/The_Champion_of_Pontresina)'' (1934) * ''[Gypsy Blood](/source/Gypsy_Blood_(1934_film))'' (1934) * ''[Every Day Isn't Sunday](/source/Every_Day_Isn't_Sunday_(1935_film))'' (1935) * ''[Trouble Backstairs](/source/Trouble_Backstairs_(1935_film))'' (1935) * ''[Fräulein Veronika](/source/Fr%C3%A4ulein_Veronika)'' (1936) * ''[Family Parade](/source/Family_Parade)'' (1936) * ''[Carousel](/source/Carousel_(1937_film))'' (1937) * ''[Little County Court](/source/Little_County_Court)'' (1938) * ''[Marriage in Small Doses](/source/Marriage_in_Small_Doses)'' (1939) * ''[Queen of the Night](/source/Queen_of_the_Night_(1951_film))'' (1951) * ''[The Inn on the Lahn](/source/The_Inn_on_the_Lahn)'' (1955) == See also == * [Meisel Music](/source/Meisel_Music) == References == {{Reflist}} == Bibliography == * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. == External links == * {{IMDb name|0577027}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Meisel, Will}} Category:1897 births Category:1967 deaths Category:Composers from Berlin Category:20th-century German composers Category:20th-century German male composers Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-composer-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Will Meisel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Meisel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Meisel?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.