Ludwig Engländer was an Austrian-born American composer of more than 30 musicals.

He was born in Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

Austria

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. According to his obituary in the New York Times he had studied with Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....

. He immigrated to New York City on October 13, 1882, and became a naturalized American citizen on February 13, 1891.

By the 1890s Engländer was composing prolifically, either for the New York stage, or popular songs (many of which were interpolated into various other productions, such as A Trip to Chinatown

A Trip to Chinatown

A Trip to Chinatown is a musical comedy in three acts by Charles H. Hoyt with music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Hoyt, that became a silent film featuring Anna May Wong half a century later. In addition to the Gaunt and Hoyt score, many songs were interpolated into the score at one time or another...

. Already by 1903 he had come in for criticism of his Teutonic sound. Perhaps for that reason he occasionally returned to Vienna near the end of his life to write musicals for that audience. The year before he died he is listed as having residence in Vienna.

At the time of his death he was living in Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community...

 with his sister.

Works

• Der Prinzgemahl (1883); revised and translated into English as The Prince Consort (1883)
• The Seven Ravens (1884)
• 1776 (1884)
• Madelaine, oder Die Rose der Champagne (1888)
• The Passing Show
  The Passing Show
  The Passing Show was a musical revue in three acts, billed as a "topical extravaganza", with a book and lyrics by Sydney Rosenfeld and music by Ludwig Engländer and various other composers. It featured spoofs of theatrical productions of the past season. The show was presented in 1894 by George...
  
  (1894)
• A Daughter of the Revolution
• The Twentieth Century Girl (1895)
• The Caliph (1896)
• Half a King (1896)
• In Gayest Manhattan, or Around New York in Ninety Minutes (1897)
• A Round of Pleasure (1897)
• The Little Corporal (1898)
• In Gay Paree (1899)
• The Man in the Moon (1899)
• The Rounders (1899)
• The Cadet Girl (1900)
• The Casino Girl (1900)
• The Monks of Malabar (1900)
• The Belle of Bohemia (1900)
• The New Yorkers (1901)
• The Strollers (1901)
• Sally in our Alley (1902)
• The Wild Rose (1902)
• The Girl from Dixie (1903)
• The Jewel of Asia (1903)
• The Office Boy (1903)
• A Madcap Princess (1904)
• The Two Roses (1904); written for Fritzi Scheff
• The White Cat (1905)
• Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer (1906)
• The Gay White Way (1907)
• Miss Innocence (1908)
• Vielliebchen (1911)
• Kittys Ehemänner (1912)
• Madam Moselle (1914)

Additionally he wrote many popular songs written with lyricists such as Sydney Rosenfeld, J. Cheever Goodwin, Harry Bache Smith, and others.

External links

• Ludwig Engländer in The Guide to Light Opera & Operetta.