Julius Hopp (18 May 1819 – 28 August 1885) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger and translator.

Life and career

Born in Graz,

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, the son of the actor and poet Friedrich Hopp, Lucius became known in the 1860s and 1870s through his adaptations of

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ' ...

's operettas, which were mainly performed in the

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, where Hopp was Kapellmeister. He composed parodies, antics and folk plays and appeared as a translator of French operas and operettas. In particular Hopp's ''sparkling adaptations'' of the operettas of Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) ensured the success of these works on Viennese soil and brought ''riches'' to theatre entrepreneurs whereby Hopp, due to his modesty, but not entirely through his own fault,. did not enjoy that ''shower of gold''.. Of Hopp's own works - despite their richness of melody - ''Das Donauweibchen'' and ''Morilla'' were only moderate successes. "Margaret and Mitten," on the other hand, had countless performances. As the last of his theatre performances Hopp worked at the

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until 1880. After he had become hard of hearing and unable to work at that time, the days of ''naked misery'' came for him. Hopp died at age 66 on 28 August 1885 in the in Vienna

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; he was buried on 31 August 1885 at

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. The costs of the corpse burial were covered by (1822-1885), General Director of the two Viennese court theatres.

Work

* ''Oesterreichs Flüsse'' (libretto: Carl Paul), allegorical festival, UA 1854 * ''Der Bräutigam in Hemdärmeln oder Vetter Fritz'' (libretto: Karl Julius),

Posse mit Gesang ''Posse mit Gesang'' ("farce with singing", plural: Possen) is a form of popular German-language music drama, that developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early examples are sometimes called 'Possenspil' or 'Possenspiel'. It is also som ...

, UA 1854 * ''Eine Vorstadt-G'schicht' '' (libretto: O. F. Berg), Life picture with singing and dancing, UA 1858 * ''Ein Wiener Kind'' (libretto: Therese Megerle), Folk play with singing, UA 1858 * ''Bruder und Brüderln'' (libretto: Karl Stein), Character portrait with singing and dancing, UA 1858 * ''Im Dorf'' (libretto: Therese Megerle), Rural character painting with song and dance, UA 1858 * ''Ein gebrochenes Wort (Das Erbtheil der Waise)'' (libretto: Therese Megerle), play with singing and dancing, UA 1859 * ''Zwei Mann von Heß'' (libretto: Anton Langer), Original life picture with singing, UA 1860 * ''Anna die schöne Kellnerin'' (libretto: H. Riedl), Character portrait with singing and dancing, UA 1860 * ''Fesche Geister von anno dazumal (Das Kind des Regiments)'' (libretto: O. F. Berg), popular work with singing, UA 1862 * ''Margrethl/Margarethl und Fäustling'' ... (own libretto), parodistic burlesque with music and dance, UA 1862 * ''Ein Deutschmeister'' (libretto: Karl Swiedack), operetta, UA 1863 * ''Auroras Geheimniß'' (libretto: Julius Megerle), Character painting with singing, dancing and ghostly apparitions, UA 1863 * ''Eine leichte Person'' (libretto: O. F. Berg), Posse, UA 1863 * ''Er nimmt auf seine Frau Geld auf'' (Libretto: Franz Biringer), Singspiel mit Tanz, UA 1864 * ''Herr Arthur Gareißl'' (libretto von A. Bahn), Posse mit Gesang, UA 1864 * ''Der halbe Mensch'' (libretto: O. F. Berg), Image of the people's life, UA 1864 * ''Der Postillion von Langenlois'' libretto: Julius Bittner), burlesque Posse mit Gesang, UA 1864 * ''Ein Wiener Findelkind''''Die fesche Godl: Skizzen aus dem Wiener Volksleben mit Gesang in drei Abtheilungen und sechs Bildern''
on WorldCat (libretto: Therese Megerle), pictures from popular life mit Gesang, UA 1864 * ''Die fesche Godel'' (libretto: Ferdinand Heim), sketches from the folk life with singing, UA 1865 * ''Das Donauweibchen und der Ritter vom Kahlenberg'' (libretto: J. Hopp and Paul Krone), romantic-comic operetta, 1866 * ''Auf einem Vulkan'' (libretto: Alois Berla), Charakterbild mit Gesang, UA 1867 * ''Der Freischütz'' (own libretto), Posse mit Gesang und Tanz, UA 1867 * ''Morilla'' (own libretto), Operetta, UA 1868 * ''Gräfin Pepi'' oder: ''Zwei bekannte Persönlichkeiten'' (libretto after ''Gräfin Guste'' by David Kalisch), Posse in one act, UA 1871 * ''

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'' (own libretto), comic-parodic operetta, UA 1874

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopp, Julius Austrian composers Austrian operetta composers Austrian male dramatists and playwrights Austrian librettists 1819 births 1885 deaths Musicians from Graz 19th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Austrian male writers