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Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an
List of Millöcker works
at the Index to Opera and Ballet Sources Online *
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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Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an Austria
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n composer of operettas and a conductor.
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He was born in Vienna
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, 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
''Der Bettelstudent'' (''The Beggar Student'') is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym of F. Zell) and Richard Genée, based on ''Les noces de Fernande'' by Victorien Sardou a ...
'' 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
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cemetery (group 32, A35).
Works
See List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker.Notes
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 *
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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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Millocker, Carl 1842 births 1899 deaths Composers from Vienna Austrian Romantic composers Austrian opera composers Male opera composers Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni 19th-century classical composers Austrian male classical composers 19th-century male musicians