Hans Engelmann Works
Hans Engelmann (1872-1914) was a German/American popular-music composer, pianist, and teacher. Although little is remembered of him today, his work was quite popular during his time. Many of his nearly three-thousand works were teaching aids or 'parlor pieces'. Hans Engelmann sometimes used the pseudonyms Heinrich Engel, Charles Lindsay, and Pierre Renard. His most popular work, Melody of Love, was recorded by many famous musicians in the mid-twentieth century.
Melody of Love (MĂ©lodie d'amour), Opus 600, is a piano piece composed by Hans Engelmann around 1903. From the website ragpiano.com, as posted on 18 May 2018:
"Melody of Love stayed in continuous print for many years, and was a staple of piano roll companies through the 1920s. Around 1942 this piece was fitted with new lyrics and became a mild perennial favorite as Whisper That You Love Me. Another set of lyrics were added to it by Tom Glazer as Melody of Love in 1954 to create what became a Number One Billboard Magazine hit the following year. It was recorded at the very least by The Four Aces, The McGuire Sisters, Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin, and Billy Vaughn whose version put it on the top playlists in the United States, making this his longest surviving work."
- Bill Edwards.
