Karl Millöcker

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Karl (also Carl) Joseph Millöcker (April 29, 1842(1842-04-29) – December 31, 1899), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.

He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting, but he never achieved a comparable success. He died in Baden bei Wien; on 27 October 1900 he was buried in an honorary grave on Vienna's Zentralfriedhof (group 32, A35).^[1]^[2]

[edit] Selected operettas

Der tote Gast (Thalia-Theater, Graz 1865)
Die beiden Binder (Thalia-Theater, Graz 1865)
Diana (Harmonie-Theater, Vienna 1867)
Der Dieb (Budapest 1868/9)
Die Fraueninsel (Deutsches Theater, Budapest 1868)
Der Regimentstambour (Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna 1869)
Abenteuer in Wien (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1873)
Das verwunschene Schloss (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1878)
Gräfin Dubarry (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1879), score revised by Theo Mackeben as Die Dubarry for Berlin (1931) with Richard Tauber, and later performed in London with Heddle Nash and Anny Ahlers; see also Madame du Barry.
Apajune, der Wassermann (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1880)
Die Jungfrau von Belleville (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1881)
Der Bettelstudent (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1882)
Gasparone (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1884)
Der Feldprediger (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1884)
Der Vizeadmiral (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1886)
Die sieben Schwaben (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1887)
Der arme Jonathan (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1890)
Das Sonntagskind (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1892)
Der Probekuss (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1894)
Das Nordlicht (Theater an der Wien, Vienna 1896)