Wikipedia:
Gerald Plato was a German composer of light music, active from the 1930s to the 1950s].
His slow waltz Melodia - Hörst Du mein heimliches Rufen [Do you hear my secret call], composed to lyrics by Erich Stöcklein, became internationally famous. The piece was recorded in 1939 by Michael Jary, Kurt Widmann, Rudi Schuricke and Herbert Ernst Groh, among others. Later performers were Helmut Zacharias (1954), Bruce Low (1961), Will Glahé (1966), John Woodhouse (1967), Klaus Wunderlich (1968), Willy Schneider (1974) and Heino (2004). In France it became known under the title Entend-tu la vie troublante?
In addition, Gerald Plato wrote other compositions with Erich Stöcklein, which were first published by Paul Lincke's Apollo-Verlag Berlin and were reissued in the 1980s by the Leipzig-based Astra-Musikverlag.
Note: Translated from the German version of Wikipedia into English.
