Hans Bund

Hans Bund, also Jack Bund, (15 August 1898 – 1 February 1982) was a German pianist, conductor, composer and arranger in the field of light music.
Life.
Born in Neunkirchen (Saarland), Bund received his first piano lessons from his father, who was a music teacher in Saarbrücken. He then studied piano and organ at the with Elly Ney and at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Later he went to Berlin, continued his education at the Berlin University of the Arts in piano, organ, counterpoint, musical composition and conducting with Ernst von Dohnányi, among others, and graduated with distinction in 1919.
In the early 1930s, he founded the "Hans Bund Jazz Orchestra", which he led as pianist and for which he wrote the arrangements in the Berlin cabaret . In 1932 he appeared with it among others in the film "Der Sieger" with Hans Albers. After renaming it the "Bravour Orchestra", further film and radio productions followed. He accompanied singers such as , Erna Sack, , , Fritzi Massary Ernst Rolf, Rudi Schuricke and Richard Tauber and produced records for Carl Lindström, Teldec, Odeon and Polydor. In 1932, coming to , he had a small ensemble for light music there in the late 1930s: "Bunds Piano-Rhythmiker". In 1942, he took over the orchestra from .
After the end of National Socialism, he was employed in April 1946 by the British supervisor for Music at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Captain Ken Bartlett, at the Cologne radio station to put together a new band there. He then formed a 35-man orchestra, which had its first concert as early as June 1946 and from which the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln developed in 1947. As a smaller formation, he established a new ensemble at WDR in 1948 called "Hans Bund und seine Solisten", which preferred more of a chamber music style of music-making and which he led until 1959. After leaving WDR in 1962, he moved into his retirement home in Rottach-Egern in Bavaria and continued to compose pieces in the field of light music.
Bund died in Rottach-Egern at the age of 83.