Richard Heuberger

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Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger (18 June 1850 – 28 October 1914) was an Austrian composer of operas and operettas and a music critic.

He was born in Graz and initially studied engineering. At the age of 26 he turned to music, studying with Robert Fuchs. Although he wrote orchestral music, operas, ballets, choral works, songs, he is best known as a composer of operettas and especially of Der Opernball. From that work comes his most famous aria, "Im Chambre séparée," which Beverly Sills called "pure whipped cream."

[edit] Selected works

Operettas

• Der Opernball (1898)
• Ihre Excellenz (1899), revised as Eine entzückende Frau
• Der Sechsuhrzug (1900)
• Das Baby (1902)
• Der Fürst von Düsterstein (1909)
• Don Quixote (1910)

Operas

• Abenteuer einer Neujahrsnacht (1886)
• Manuel Venegas (1889), revised as Mirjam, oder Das Maifest (1894)
• Barfüssele (1905)

Ballets

• Die Lautenschlägerin (1896)
• Struwwelpeter (1897)

[edit] External links

• Works by or about Richard Heuberger in libraries (WorldCat catalog)