- He came to the Electrola company in 1927 where he took over the art direction. Four years later he became a teacher at the national Akademie-Hochschule where he worked till 1945.
- He collaborated in Alfred Rosenberg's Taskforce for German Culture (Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur) as Area Cultural Director and Branch-Leader for Light Music and Operetta, and was Presiding delegate in the (National Socialist) Union of German Artists.
- In 1910 his friend Leo Blech summoned him to the Royal Opera in Berlin, where Schmalstich worked as Kapellmeister (orchestral conductor) until 1919 alongside Blech, Richard Strauss and Karl Muck.
- He was also successful as a composer and besides numerous songs he also wrote the two operas "Beatrice" (1940) and "Die Hochzeitsfackel" (1943).
- Schmalstich remained loyal to his chosen home of Berlin until his death.
- After some years of freelance activity on numerous foreign tours, in 1927 he took on the artistic directorship of the Electrola Company in Berlin.
- Clemens Schmalstich was for more than 50 years married to Lissi Schmalstich-Kurz, formerly a celebrated concert and oratorio singer and author, who most notably wrote the libretto for his opera Beatrice.
- After World War II he was prohibited to work temporarily because of his membership by the NSDAP.
- In 1902 the young student was able to attend the Königliche Hochschule (Royal High school) for Music at Berlin. There he 'learnt' piano with Professor Ernst Rudorff, but then two years later he transferred as a student of composition to the master-class of Engelbert Humperdinck (best known as the creator of the opera Hänsel and Gretel), who became a fatherly friend to him and arranged for him to obtain a position as conductor at the New Theatre in Berlin, where, among other works, he conducted Humperdinck's music for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Soon after this Schmalstich won a whole range of Academy awards.
- He composed concerts, sinfonias, suites as well as the operettas "Tänzerin aus Liebe" (1919) and "Wenn die Zarin lächelt" (1937). An early success was "Peterchens Mondfahrt" (1913).
- Clemens Schmalstich was married with the singer and writer Lissi Schmalstich-Kurz.
- The film composer Clemens Schmalstich studied philosophy in Bonn before he dedicated to his real passion in 1902 when he began to study music at the Königliche Hochschule in Berlin.
- Born on 8 October 1880 in Posen, Clemens Carl-Otto Schmalstich was originally a student attending the Posen Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium on the wishes of his father (who would not hear of his having a serious course of musical education), and then had four semesters in Philosophy at Bonn.
- He joined among others the composition class by Engelbert Humperdinck.
- Clemens Schmalstich began his professional career as a conductor at the Neues Schauspielhaus in Berlin, it followed an engagement at the Königliche Oper.
- From 1945 he took control of the Siemens Orchestra.
- He joined the Nazi party (Membership number 1.106.153) in 1931.
- Clemens Schmalstich also wrote the music for movies and culture productions from the 30s.
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