Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. __NOTOC__ He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The first was Der tote Gast, an operetta in one act, premiered in 1865 with libretto by Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke.
The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting. However, he never achieved a comparable success afterward.
Carl Millöcker died in Baden bei Wien; on 31 December 1899. He was buried in an honorary grave in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof cemetery (group 32, A35).
Works See List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker.
Notes
References Lamb, Andrew (1992), 'Millöcker, Carl' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)
External links
List of Millöcker works at the Index to Opera and Ballet Sources Online
Photo of Millöcker, 1890s Broadcast audition " P. Zhuravlenko, F.Chaliapin & S. Guitry, Yvonne Printemps” (cycle " The sound history of the operette” by Maxim Malkov – in Russian)
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