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Georg Jarno (3 June 1868, in Buda – 25 May 1920, in Breslau) was a Hungarian composer, mainly of operettas.


Biography

After he finished his studies in Budapest, he worked as Theaterkapellmeister in Bremen, Gera, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Metz, Liegnitz, Chemnitz and Magdeburg, and also as
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director in Bad Kissingen, before settling in Vienna as a freelance composer. Before 1903, Jarno's name was György Cohner. He is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in
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, Poland.


Career

Jarno's greatest successes were '' Die Försterchristl'' (1907) and ''Das Musikantenmädel'' (1910). His operettas ''Das Farmermädchen'' and ''Jungfer Sonnenschein'' were well received, whereas ''Die Marine-Gustl'', ''Mein Annerl'', ''Der Goldfisch'' and ''Die Csikosbaroness'' could muster only passing interest. Much of the success of his works was due to the distinguished presentation of their title roles by his brother's (Joseph Jarno) wife, the highly popular
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. He loved to introduce historically well known persons into his operettas; Kaiser Joseph II in ''Die Försterchristl'', Prince Eugene of Savoy in ''Jungfer Sonnenschein'', Joseph Haydn in ''Das Musikantenmädel''. Before operettas, he wrote three operas: ''Die schwarze Kaschka'' (1895), ''Der Richter von Zalamea'' (1899) based on Calderon's ''El alcalde de Zalamea'', and ''Der zerbrochne Krug'' (1903) based on
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; none prevailed. His main success, ''Die Försterchristl'', had a run of 64 performances at
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in 1910/11 under the title ''The Girl and the Kaiser''.


Stage works


Bibliography

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References

* *'' Reclams Operettenführer, Anton Würz (ed.), Stuttgart 1962


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jarno, Georg 1868 births 1920 deaths 19th-century classical composers 20th-century classical composers Hungarian classical composers Hungarian expatriates in Austria Hungarian expatriates in Germany Hungarian opera composers Hungarian male classical composers Male opera composers People from Buda 20th-century Hungarian male musicians 19th-century male musicians