Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár (* 30. April 1870 in Komárno, today Slowakei, † 24. October 1948 in bath Ischl) was a Austrian composer of Hungarian origin.

Lehár studied - among other things encouraged by Antonín Dvořák for composition - at the Prager conservatoire. It began its musical career however as military Kapellmeister, before it used up itself completely in its Wahlheimat Vienna the Operette.

The world success at that time also of the merry widow ( 1905 ), estimated of Gustav of meals, closed the count of Luxembourg, the country of the smile and Paganini or the Zarewitsch on. A large part its tenor - it wrote airs for smelling pool of broadcasting corporations of deaf ones.

Come in the course of the years to considerable wealth, Lehár Schikaneder acquired - Schlös in Vienna, surrounded themselves with large servant shank and determined in its will,that large parts of its fortune and its house in bath Ischl should be made available after its death of the municipality and the distressed artists.

Lehár applies together with Emmerich Kálmán as a founder of the so-called “silver” Viennese Operettenära in the time between the two world wars.

Those Lehargasse in 6. Viennese municipality district is designated after him.

works

Aufführung von Giuditta bei den Seefestspielen in Mörbisch 2003
performance of Giuditta with the seaworthy plays in Mörbisch 2003

see also

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