Walter Kollo was a German composer of operettas, Possen mit Gesang, and Singspiele as well as popular songs. He was also a conductor and a music publisher.
Kollo was born in Neidenburg, East Prussia. His best known work, the operetta Wie einst im Mai, was the basis of a 1917 Sigmund Romberg operetta in America entitled Maytime. Kollo died in Berlin.
A merchant's son, he was originally supposed to take his father's trade, but was able to devote himself to the study of music in the Königsberg Sond...
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