Árpád Doppler (5 June 1857 – 13 August 1927) was a Hungarian-

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. He was born in

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, the son of Karl Doppler, and he studied at the Conservatory of

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. From 1880 to 1883 he was a teacher at the Grand Conservatory in

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, after which he returned to the German Empire in order to teach at the Conservatory in Stuttgart. From 1889, he was also a choir leader at the court opera in Stuttgart. He composed several works for piano and for orchestra, choral works, ''

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'', and operas. His comic opera ''Halixula'' was first performed in 1891 at the court opera in Stuttgart; ''Viel Lärm um Nichts'', based on ''

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'', had its first performance in Leipzig in 1896. Nicolas Slonimsky: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York 1958, Seite 394,
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His compositional style is reminiscent at times of

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. He died in Stuttgart in 1927.

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