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Josef Bayer (6 March 1852 – 12 March 1913) was an
Josef Bayer
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Josef Bayer (6 March 1852 – 12 March 1913) was an Austria
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n composer and the director of the Austrian Court Ballet from 1883 until his death. He was born and died in Vienna
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Biography
He studied at the Vienna Conservatory under the elder Josef Hellmesberger, Anton Bruckner andOtto Dessoff
Felix Otto Dessoff (14 January 1835 – 28 October 1892) was a German conductor and composer.
Biography
Dessoff was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig; his father was a cloth merchant. His musical talent was recognized by Franz Liszt, who then ...
, and was a violinist in the Wiener Hofoper (the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra), 1870-1898. In 1883 he was appointed Court Kapellmeister.
Though he created over twenty one-act ballets including '' Die Braut von Korea'', he is remembered for ''Die Puppenfee'' ("The Fairy Doll") of 1888, which began life as ''Im Puppenladen'' ("In the Doll Shop"). It was the definitive Austrian court ballet, and remains in the repertory of the Vienna State Opera
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Bayer was also friends with the Viennese waltz
Viennese waltz (german: Wiener Walzer) is a genre of ballroom dance. At least four different meanings are recognized. In the historically first sense, the name may refer to several versions of the waltz, including the earliest waltzes done in b ...
composer Johann Strauss II and it was Bayer who completed the unfinished Strauss Cinderella ballet
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...
, '' Aschenbroedel'' in 1900, Strauss having died in 1899 leaving a completed draft of the work lacking its orchestration. Earlier, Bayer commemorated Strauss' golden anniversary
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as conductor and composer with Bayer's specially composed ballet "Rund um Wien" in 1894, which was performed at the Vienna State Opera.
Bayer also composed several operettas
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...
including ''Der Chevalier von San Marco'' (1882), ''Mister Menelaus'' (1896), ''Fräulein Hexe'' (1898), ''Der Polizeichef'' (1904),
''Spitzbub & Cie'' (1907), and ''Das Damenduell'' (1907).
He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof
The Vienna Central Cemetery (german: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. The cemetery's name is descriptive of its ...
, Vienna.
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Josef Bayer
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