Romberg, Sigmund

Sigmund Romberg Composer Nagy Kaniza, Hungary, July 29, 1887; New York City, November 9, 1951. Romberg came to the United States in 1909 and got jobs playing piano in Hungarian restaurants in New York City. He later began conducting a small salon orchestra at Bustanoby’s, a fashionable restaurant. After he instituted the playing of American trots and glides for social dancing, the place became a favorite rendezvous of the rich and famous. Romberg’s first published compositions were “Some Smoke”…