1. Franz Lehar --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Franz Lehar Hungarian composer of operettas who achieved worldwide success with Die lustige Witwe (The Merry http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047654/Franz-Lehar

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document.writeln(AAMB1); Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article orig. died Oct. 24, 1948, Bad Ischl, Austria Hungarian composer. He began studying the violin at age 12 in Prague. In the 1890s he was a military bandmaster like his father; by the end of the decade he had moved to Vienna, where he became a popular composer of marches and waltzes. After 1901 he concentrated on orchestra conducting and on composing, notably his 40 witty and melodic operettas that embody the prewar Viennese spirit, including the popular The Merry Widow The Countess of Luxembourg (1909), and The Land of Smiles document.writeln(AAMB2); Images and Media: More on "Franz Lehar" from the 32 Volume Lehar, Franz - Hungarian composer of operettas who achieved worldwide success with Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow). Bad Ischl - town, Oberosterreich Bundesland (federal state), central Austria. It lies at the confluence of the Traun and Ischler Ache rivers, about 26 miles (42 km) east-southeast of Salzburg. First mentioned in records of 1262, it received municipal status in 1940. The centre of the Salzkammergut resort region, the town has saline, iodine, and sulfur springs and has been a much-frequented spa since 1822. It ... Bronhill, June

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FRANZ LEHAR April 30, 1870 - Oct.24, 1948 Best known as a composer of operettas, he studied with his father, a military bandmaster, and from 1882 to 1888 he was a pupil at the Prague Conservatory, studying violin and music theory. On the advice of Dvorak, he concentrated on composition. After graduation, he played violin in the opera orchestra at Elberfeld. Later, he joined his father's band, the Fiftieth Infantry, in Vienna, as assistant bandmaster. In Vienna, he also free-lanced as a conductor, and in the Spring of 1902, became conductor at the Theater an der Wien in his Vienna. His opera Wiener Frauen was produced there in November, 1902. From that time, he lived in Vienna, and devoted his time to composition. His greatest success was The Merry Widow, which was first produced at Theater-an-der-Wein on December 30, 1905. which had more than five thousand performances. At one time, it ran simultaneously in five different languages in five different theaters, all in Buenos Aires. His works also include sonatas, symphonic poems, marches, and dances.

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You are HERE Classical Composer Biography : Franz Lehar by Betty Fry December 29, 2001 Amazon Products The Count of Luxembourg Franz Lehar: The Czarevitch The Merry Widow given its romantic entanglements. The Merry Widow ' was performed over 5,000 times in the U.S.A., and with five simultaneous productions in five languages in Buenos Aires, Lehar became a dollar millionaire at the age of thirty five. However I do know that he was born on the 30 th April, 1870 in Komaron, Hungary, and grew up amid the sounds of operetta. His father was a military bandmaster, and the band, of which Lehar was briefly a member, played through the entire repertoire of Strauss, Suppe, Offenbach, and Italian opera buffa ( comic opera Kukuska', and in 1924 he married Sophie Meth. Franz Lehar came to Vienna during a critical period in that city's history. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, of which Vienna was the capital, was in a long slow decline.The final collapse came in 1918 at the end of the First World War. Lehar's operettas cleverly tuned in to the traditional Viennese spirit of sweetness and charm, which was by then increasingly tempered with a nostalgia for a happier past. The Merry Widow' tells the story of a young and attractive woman, Hanna Glawari, whose rich, elderly husband has died just one week after their wedding, leaving her with the world at her feet.

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18. Franz Lehar: The Merry Widow: The Austrian Composer's Masterpiece, Operetta 'Die Die Lustige Witwe, a Austrian operetta by franz Lehár opera plot synopsis, character description, and other Lehár operetta information. http://german-opera.suite101.com/article.cfm/franz_lehr_opera_the_merry_widow

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Opera's Librettos Franz Lehàr Lehàr Composers Home Page The Operettas of Franz Lehàr Operettas: Title (date of composition and libretto) Das Land des Lächelns (1929, Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner) Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909, Wilner and Bodanzky) Die lustige Witwe (1905, Léon Victor and Leo Stein) Friederike (1928, L. Herzer and F. Löhner) Frühlingsmädel Giuditta (1934, Knepler and Löhrer) Paganini (1925, Knepler and Jenbach) Rose de Nöel (19, collaborat. Karl Kristof) Schön ist die Welt (1930, Löhrer and Herzer) Wo die Lerche singt (1918, Willner and Reichert) Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble Studio Informatico Anesin

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