Carl Millöcker
Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker (–), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. • Illustration — Carl Millöcker (1883) He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The first was Der tote Gast, an operetta in one act, premiered in 1865 with libretto by Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke.
Carl Millöcker
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- Born
- 1842
- Died
- 1899
- Nationality
- Cisleithania · Austrian Empire
- Occupation
- chapelmaster · composer · flautist · conductor
- Fields
- operetta
- Known for
- Das verwunschene Schloss · Der Bettelstudent · Gasparone · Der arme Jonathan · Gräfin Dubarry · Cousin Bobby
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Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker (–), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. • Illustration — Carl Millöcker (1883) He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The first was Der tote Gast, an operetta in one act, premiered in 1865 with libretto by Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke.
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The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting. However, he never achieved a comparable success afterward. • Illustration — Song from Carl Millöcker’s operetta Drei Paar Schuhe (1871), trio arrangement 2025 Carl Millöcker died in Baden bei Wien; on 31 December 1899. He was buried in an honorary grave in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof cemetery (group 32, A35).
See List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker.
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1842
Carl Millöcker was born in 1842.
1879
Gräfin Dubarry is dated 1879.
1899
Carl Millöcker died at Baden.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1291237461, Potpourri nach Motiven aus der Operette: Das verwunschene Schloss von Carl Millöcker.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1291237461, Potpourri nach Motiven aus der Operette: Das verwunschene Schloss von Carl Millöcker.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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