Victor Jacobi
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Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor was a Hungarian operetta composer who was born on October 22, 1883 and died on December 10, 1921 in New York.
He studied at Zeneakadémia (Academy of Music) in Budapest at the same time as the noted Hungarian composers Imre Kálmán and Albert Szirmai. Jacobi began his career as "Jakabfi Viktor" on December 17, 1904 with the operetta "A rátartós királykisasszony".
His most famous operetta is "Szibill". The performance of this operetta was cancelled in London because of the beginning of World War I.
After that, he left London for the United States and during his stay in New York he became very ill. He died at the age of 38.
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