Carl Millöcker

Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.

He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The first was Der tote Gast, an operetta in one act, premiered in 1865 with libretto by Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke.

The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting. However, he never achieved a comparable success afterward.

Carl Millöcker died in Baden bei Wien; on 31 December 1899. He was buried in an honorary grave in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof cemetery (group 32, A35).

Works

See List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker.

Notes

References

Lamb, Andrew (1992), 'Millöcker, Carl' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)

External links

List of Millöcker works at the Index to Opera and Ballet Sources Online

Photo of Millöcker, 1890s

Broadcast audition " P. Zhuravlenko, F.Chaliapin & S. Guitry, Yvonne Printemps” (cycle " The sound history of the operette” by Maxim Malkov – in Russian)

Works

1842 births

1899 deaths

Composers from Vienna

Austrian Romantic composers

Austrian opera composers

Male opera composers

Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni

19th-century classical composers

Austrian male classical composers

19th-century male musicians