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Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American
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 lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. Some of his more famous lyrics are for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Indian Love Call" and "Cuddle Up a Little Closer".

ach was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC....
 to Danish
Denmark

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 immigrant parents Adolph Hauerbach and his wife Sena Olsen, and attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute
Westminster College, Salt Lake City

Westminster College is a private, Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in the Sugar House, Salt Lake City neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah....
, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois
Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census , the city population was 33,706. It is the county seat of Knox County....
, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was an United States writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln....
, and graduated in 1895.






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Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. Some of his more famous lyrics are for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Indian Love Call" and "Cuddle Up a Little Closer".

Biography

Harbach was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC....
 to Danish
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 immigrant parents Adolph Hauerbach and his wife Sena Olsen, and attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute
Westminster College, Salt Lake City

Westminster College is a private, Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in the Sugar House, Salt Lake City neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah....
, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois
Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census , the city population was 33,706. It is the county seat of Knox County....
, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was an United States writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln....
, and graduated in 1895. He obtained his masters degree in English from Whitman College
Whitman College

Whitman College is a co-educational, non-sectarian residential undergraduate Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Walla Walla, Washington....
 in Walla Walla
Walla Walla, Washington

Walla Walla is the largest city in and the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, Washington, United States. The population was 29,686 at the 2000 United States Census and 31,350 from the 2008 estimate of the Washington State Office of Financial Management....
, Washington
Washington

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, and attended Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 in New York
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 with the goal of becoming an English professor. In the early 1900s, complaining of eye difficulties making prolonged reading uncomfortable, he became a newspaper reporter. He also worked at various advertising agencies.

He collaborated as lyricist or librettist with Karl Hoschna, Rudolf Friml
Rudolf Friml

Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musical theater and songs, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States where he became a composer....
, Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
, Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
, Louis Hirsch
Louis Hirsch

Louis Hirsch was a popular composer of songs and musicals in the early 20th century....
, Herbert Stothart
Herbert Stothart

Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning for his background music for The Wizard of Oz ....
, Vincent Youmans
Vincent Youmans

Vincent Youmans was an United States popular composer and Broadway theatre producer....
, George Gershwin
George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
, and Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg

Sigmund Romberg, born Zsigmond Romberg was an United States composer best known for his operettas....
. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, serving as its director (1920-1963), vice president (1936-1940), and finally president (1950-1953).

He was lyricist for many songs now in the standard repertoire, including "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Indian Love Call," "Cuddle Up a Little Closer," "One Alone," "The Night Was Made For Love," and "I Won't Dance."

Harbach, an inductee of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, died in New York City
New York City

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.

Selected Work


  • Early Work
    • 1907 Three Twins (music Karl Hoschna)
    • 1909 Bright Eyes (music Karl Hoschna)
    • 1912 The Firefly (music Rudolf Friml
      Rudolf Friml

      Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musical theater and songs, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States where he became a composer....
      )
    • 1913 High Jinks
    • 1918 Going Up
      Going Up (musical)

      Going Up is a musical theatre in three acts with music by Louis Hirsch and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and James Montgomery. Set in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States in 1919, the musical tells the story of a writer turned aviator who wins the hand of the high society girl that he loves by his daring handling of the joystick of a 19...


  • Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
     and Harbach
    • 1925 Who?
      Who? (song)

      "Who?" is a pop song written for the Broadway musical Sunny by Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The song was featured in the film version of Sunny starring Marilyn Miller....
      , a six-week #1 hit for George Olsen
      George Olsen

      George Olsen was an United States band-leader.Born in Portland, Oregon he attended the University of Michigan, where he formed his band, George Olsen and his Music....
       and his Orchestra
    • 1925 Sunny
      Sunny (musical)

      Sunny is a 1925 musical theatre written by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Otto Harbach. The plot involves Sunny, the star of a circus act, who falls for a rich playboy, but comes in conflict with his snooty family....
      , a Marilyn Miller
      Marilyn Miller

      Marilyn Miller was one of the most popular Broadway theatre musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences....
       vehicle
    • 1931 The Cat and the Fiddle
      The Cat and the Fiddle

      The Cat and the Fiddle is an American MGM romantic musical film directed by William K. Howard based on the hit 1931 Broadway musical by Jerome Kern and Otto A....
    • 1933 Roberta
      Roberta

      Roberta is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The musical is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller....


  • Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     and Harbach
    • 1924 Rose Marie by Rudolf Friml
      Rudolf Friml

      Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musical theater and songs, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States where he became a composer....
    • 1926 The Desert Song
      The Desert Song

      The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Morocco fighters, against French colonial rule....
       by Sigmund Romberg
      Sigmund Romberg

      Sigmund Romberg, born Zsigmond Romberg was an United States composer best known for his operettas....
    • 1927 Golden Dawn, music by Emmerich Kalman
      Emmerich Kalman

      Emmerich K?lm?n , also known as Imre K?lm?n, was a Hungary composer of operettas....
       and Herbert P. Stothart


  • Vincent Youmans
    Vincent Youmans

    Vincent Youmans was an United States popular composer and Broadway theatre producer....
    , Irving Caesar
    Irving Caesar

    Irving Caesar , was a prominent United States lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for "Swanee ," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two ," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written....
     and Harbach
    • No, No, Nanette
      No, No, Nanette

      No, No, Nanette is a musical comedy with lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, music by Vincent Youmans, and a book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel....