Carl Millöcker Explained

Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( -), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. 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.

The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting. However, he never achieved a comparable success afterward.

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).^{[1] [2]}

Works

See List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker.

Notes

1. Web site: Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Ehrengräber Gruppe 32 A. 11 October 2007. Abraham . Hedwig. Vienna Tourist Guide. German.
2. Web site: In the Footsteps of Vienna's Famous Musicians. 11 October 2007. (Heike) Tita Büttner . March 2007 . MS Word. Vienna Tourist Board . 12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080228213548/http://b2b.wien.info/data/artikel-db/e/Famous_Musicians.doc . 28 February 2008.

References

• Lamb, Andrew (1992), 'Millöcker, Carl' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)

External links

• • List of Millöcker works at the Index to Opera and Ballet Sources Online
• Web site: Short biography and discography. 2007-10-11. Naxos. 2007-09-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20070920015041/http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/3967.htm. dead.
• Photo of Millöcker, 1890s
• Broadcast audition " P. Zhuravlenko, F.Chaliapin & S. Guitry, Yvonne Printemps” (cycle " The sound history of the operette” by Maxim Malkov – in Russian)
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