Friedrich Lux (24 November 1820 – 9 July 1895) was a German conductor and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. He was born in the town of

Ruhla is a town situated in the forest of Thuringia in the district of Wartburgkreis in Germany, immediately next to the Rennsteig. Thal and Kittelsthal are parts of the town. History Within the German Empire (1871-1918), part of Ruhla belonged to t ...

and was initially an

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

. Lux was a student of

Friedrich Schneider Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider (3 January 1786 in Alt-Waltersdorf – 23 November 1853 in Dessau) was a German pianist, composer, organist, and conductor. Schneider studied piano first with his father Johann Gottlob Schneider (senior), and ...

. Between 1841 and 1850, he was Director of the Opera in

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

and from 1851-1857 performed the same role in

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

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Notable works

* In 1882, he composed the

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

'' Der Schmied von Ruhla'', with a libretto by Ludwig C. Bauer. * In 1884, he composed the

comic opera Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...

The Duchess of Athens ''The Duchess of Athens'' (german: Die Fürstin von Athen) is a German comic opera with music by Friedrich Lux and the libretto by writer Wilhelm Jacoby.Parsons p. 357 Jacoby, who was well known for his farces, based the work on a play by the Gree ...

'', with a libretto by

Wilhelm Jacoby Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925) was a German playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces notably the 1890 work '' Pension Schöller'' which he co-authored with Carl Laufs. He was the father of the film director George Jacoby Georg Jacob ...

References

Bibliography

* Short, Michael. ''Liszt Letters in the Library of Congress''. Pendragon Press, 2003.

External links

* * 1820 births 1895 deaths People from Ruhla 19th-century German composers {{Germany-composer-stub