Karl Hoschna was a Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century...

-era composer most noted for his songs "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine

Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine

"Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine" is a popular song. The music was written by Karl Hoschna, the lyrics by Otto Harbach. The song was published in 1908. From the Broadway musical The Three Twins. The song has now become a standard, performed by many artists, including Julie London and Vic...

", "Every Little Movement

Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)

"Every Little Movement " is a popular song. Its music was written by Karl Hoschna and its lyrics by Otto Harbach for their musical Madame Sherry, which opened on Broadway in 1910....

" and "Yama Yama Man", and for a string of successful Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 musicals.

Hoschna was born on 16 August 1876 in Kuschwarda

Strážný

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, Bohemia

Bohemia

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, and educated in Austria

Austria

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 at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, specializing in the oboe

Oboe

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. He graduated with honors and became an oboist in the Austrian army band

Military band

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.
He emigrated to the United States in 1896 and joined the Victor Herbert orchestra

Victor Herbert

Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...

 as an oboe soloist.

Hoschna married Hettie Hug; they had three daughters.

Hoschna abandoned the oboe because he believed the vibration of the oboe's double-reed was affecting his mind, and became a copyist for the Witmark Music Publishing Co., where he selected songs for publication and was an arranger.

With Otto Harbach

Otto Harbach

Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...

, Harry B. Smith

Harry B. Smith

Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...

, Charles Noel Douglas, Mark Swan, Benjamin Hapgood Burt, William C. Duncan

William C. Duncan

William Chamberlain Duncan was a brewer, politician, and mayor of Detroit, Michigan.-Biography:William C. Duncan was born in Lyons, New York on May 18, 1820. The family moved to Rochester, New York in 1825, and in 1841 Duncan began working as a steward on the passenger steamers crossing the Great...

, and others, he collaborated on a series of Broadway musical comedies, which included:

• 1905: Belle of the West
• 1905: The Daughter of the Desert
• 1907: The Girl from Broadway
• 1908: Three Twins, which provided Bessie McCoy ("The Yama Yama Girl") with her signature song
  Signature song
  A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singer or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of songs...
  
   "The Yama Yama Man", and introduced Cuddle Up A Little Closer.
• 1908: Prince Humbug
• 1909: The Silver Star
• 1910: Katy Did
• 1910: Bright Eyes
• 1910: The Echo
  The Echo
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  , incorporated Hoschna's song "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Boy"
• 1910: Madame Sherry, in which Every Little Movement was introduced.
• 1910: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
  Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
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   (The main composer was George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
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  ; Hoschna was represented by a selection from Madame Sherry)
• 1911: Jumping Jupiter
• 1911: Dr. De Luxe
• 1911: The Girl of My Dreams

• 1912: The Wall Street Girl

After his death, his music was used in:

• 1917: Miss 1917
  Miss 1917
  Miss 1917 is a musical revue with a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, music by Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern and others, and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, Otto Harbach, Henry Blossom and others...
  
   (the song "Yama Yama Man", with lyrics by Collin Davis)
• 1980: Tintypes
  Tintypes
  Tintypes is a musical revue conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle.With its time frame set between the turn of the 20th century and the onset of World War I, this chamber piece with a cast of five provides a musical history lesson focusing on an exciting and tumultuous period in...
  
   (the song "Electricity", with lyrics by Harry B. Smith)

Hoschna was inducted into Tin Pan Alley's Hall of Fame in 1908.

Hoschna died before completing the music for The Wall Street Girl, which featured Blanche Ring

Blanche Ring

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, her brother Cyril Ring

Cyril Ring

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, and Will Rogers, Jr.

Will Rogers, Jr.

William Vann Rogers, generally known as Will Rogers, Jr. , was a son of legendary humorist Will Rogers and his wife, the former Betty Blake . He was a Democratic U. S. Representative from California from January 3, 1943 until May 23, 1944, when he resigned to return to the United States Army...

Hoschna's popular songs include:

• "Bright Eyes"
• "Cuddle Up a Little Closer
  Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine
  "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine" is a popular song. The music was written by Karl Hoschna, the lyrics by Otto Harbach. The song was published in 1908. From the Broadway musical The Three Twins. The song has now become a standard, performed by many artists, including Julie London and Vic...
  
  "
• "Girl of My Dreams"
• "Yama Yama Man"
• "Every Little Movement
  Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)
  "Every Little Movement " is a popular song. Its music was written by Karl Hoschna and its lyrics by Otto Harbach for their musical Madame Sherry, which opened on Broadway in 1910....
  
  "
• "The Mood You're In"

Hoschna died on 23 December 1911 in New York City, leaving an estate of $6,424, and was buried 26 December 1911 at Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, Kings County , New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.-History:...

 in Brooklyn, New York.

External links

• music by Karl Hoschna at the "National Jukebox"