Hugo Victor Felix (19 November 1866 – 25 August 1934), born Felix Hugo Hayman, was an Austrian

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s and musicals born in

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. Gänzl, Kurt
"Felix the composer"
''Kurt of Gerolstein'', 19 December 2018 Felix's parents were and Hungarian–Austrian merchant, Mori Hayman (died 1896) and a Slovakian–Austrian mother, Eugenie Bachrich (died 1908). He was educated in

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, graduated from

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with a Doctorate in Science, but decided to pursue music instead of chemistry. His first operetta was ''Die Kätzchen'', first produced in

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in 1890 and in Vienna in 1892. His other works included ''Husarenblut'' (1894, Vienna), ''Rhodope'' (1900, Vienna and

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), ''Madame Sherry'' (1902, Berlin – his biggest success) and ''

The Merveilleuses ''The Merveilleuses'' is a musical play in three acts, with a book adapted from the French original of Victorien Sardou by Basil Hood, lyrics by Adrian Ross, and music by Hugo Felix. The main plot is a love story, concerning Dorlis, an ''émigré'' ...

'' (1906, London). As music director of musical director of the

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in Vienna from the late 1890s to 1906, he imported several British works to Vienna, adapting both librettos and scores. He also contributed interpolated numbers to several musical comedies Felix later went to the US where ''Madame Sherry'' met with success, in 1912, and composed several more shows. He remained in the US for the remainder of his life and died in

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, California, aged sixty-seven.

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Libretto of ''Rodomonte''

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