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Michel BAIDA  .... - ....

aka Michel Baida, M. Baida
nationality
occupation doctor
birth
baptism
death before May 1952
burial
marriage Married in (15 Jan?) 1922:
Hilde CASPER

b. ...............
d. ....................

children

PARENTS

father
mother
children

occupation: living in Berlin
Came to Germany in ca 1908/1909.
registered trademark in 1912


Hilde Baida left Germany before 1938 and moved to Beirut. The address is Rue Damas, by Martyr Square where the first Baidaphon shop in Beirut opened around 1907.

LIFE


Labelbuch


Rainer E. Lotz very kindly allowed me to put the Baidaphon chapter from Das Bilderlexikon der deutschen Schellack-Schallplatten – The German Record Label Book (Volume 1, A - D) on the website of www.recordingpioneers.com


To access the Baidaphon file click here


Rainer E. Lotz mit Michael Gunrem und Stephan Puille
Das Bilderlexikon der deutschen Schellack-Schallplatten (5 Bände) - The German Record Label Book


NOTES

  • Record Industry and Egyptian Traditional Music: 1904-1931 by Ali Jihad Racy (in: Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Vol. XX, No. 1 (January 1976)
  • The Record Industry comes to the Orient by Pekka Gronow (in: Ethnomusicology. Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (May 1981) (online)
  • Arabic Records by M. S. Kinnear (in: The Talking Machine Review No. 68, p. 1881 (June 1984)
  • The Gramophone Company's Persian Recordings 1899 to 1934 by Michael S. Kinnear. Bajakhana, Victoria, 2000 (p. 18-20, 24)
  • De Baidaphon, ach wie kent hem niet by Frans Jansen (in: De Weergever, 26e jaargang, No. 1 of 2004 (pp. 40-41) (in Dutch)
  • Michel Baida in chapter entitled: Die goldenen Zwanziger: Araber in der Weimarer Republik by Frank Gesemann and Gerhard Höpp (in: Araber in Berlin (bis 1945), Berlin, 1998 (pp. 32-33))
  • Correspondence from the EMI Music Archives
  • The Mystery of Tycoon Michel Baida in Old Arab Berlin by Irit Neidhardt (in: The Markaz Review no. 28 (15 Sep 2022))
  • Das Bilderlexikon der deutschen Schellack-Schallplatten (5 Bände) – The German Record Label Book by Rainer E. Lotz with Michael Gunrem and Stephan Puille (2019). Bear Family Records.


COMPANIES & LABELS


BAIDA FRÈRES


PHOTOS



THANK YOU


Rainer E. Lotz