Viktor Nessler

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Viktor (or Victor) Ernst Nessler (born Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace, 28 January 1841 - died Strasbourg, 28 May 1890) was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig.

At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled Fleurette (1864). To complete his knowledge of music Nessler went to Leipzig to study under Moritz Hauptmann.

His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (1879) and Der Trompeter von Säkkingen (1884), based on Scheffel's poem, were very popular in the 19th century. The great conductor Artur Nikisch composed an orcherstral arrangement of material from Der Trompeter von Säkkingen. Besides a number of other operas, Neszler wrote many songs and choral works; but it is with the Trompeter von Säckingen that his name is associated. In 1895 a monument to him by the sculptor Alfred Marzolff was erected in Strasbourg.

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