Alfred Zamara (28 April 1863 – 11 August 1940) was an

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and

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...

ist. He was the son of Antonio Zamara (1823 or 1829 or 1831 or 1835 –1901) and was born in

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. Like his father, became professor of harp at the Vienna Conservatory and solo harpist at the

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. He and his sister, Theresa, were both taught the harp by their father. Alfred Zamara wrote many salon pieces, made transcriptions for the harp, and edited

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's ''Sieben Etuden''; among his pupils was Joseph E. Schuëcker (1886-1938) from 1900-01. ( Antonio Zamara had taught Joseph's father and uncle, Edmund Schuëcker (1860-1911) from 1871–77 and Heinrich Schuëcker (1867-1913) from 1878–84) The Zamaras were a Viennese family of harpists active in the musical life of Croatia in the 19th century. His father, Antonio Zamara, had been born in Italy but the family moved to Austria. His sister, Theresa, was a member of the

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and later taught harp at the Vienna Conservatory. He collaborated with

Viktor Léon Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 23 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He col ...

to produce the opera ''

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'' which was produced at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in

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in September 1886.

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