Siegfried Translateur - Wiener Praterleben, Op. 12 (1892)

Salo Siegfried Translateur, or Siegfried "Salo" Translateur, Hebrew: זיגפריד "סאלו" טרנסלטור‎ (19 June 1875 – 1 March 1944) was a German conductor and composer of waltzes, marches, and other light dance music. Today he is most famous for his Wiener Praterleben [de] waltz, which became popular as Sportpalastwalzer in 1920s Berlin.

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Wiener Praterleben, Op. 12 "Sportpalast-Walzer" (1892)

Berliner Symphoniker conducted by Robert Stolz

Translateur started his music studies in Breslau, Vienna, and Leipzig, and also learned from a French composer of dance music, Émile Waldteufel. In 1900, he moved to Berlin, where he became an orchestra conductor. Wiener Praterleben, he wrote as a 17-year-old student.

Translateur's entertainment music became increasingly popular; his orchestra played on international tours and even in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1911, he founded the "Lyra" music publishing company in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. It mostly published his own works, but also compositions by José Armándola, Marc Roland, Franz von Blon and Paul Lincke, among others. Translateur's son Hans Translateur later joined his father in the business, and the publishing house was renamed to "Lyra Translateur & Co".

After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Translateur, having been deemed a "half-Jew" (Mischling) by the Nuremberg Laws, was forced to liquidate "Lyra", and was barred from the Reich Music Chamber which meant a professional ban. He sold his publishing house to the London publisher Bosworth in 1938. Not much is known about what happened to him after that. Translateur, along with his wife, was deported from Berlin to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on 19 April 1943. He died there on 1 March 1944, at the age of sixty-eight.