Richard Heuberger
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n composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
of opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
s and operetta
Operetta
Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
s, a music critic
Critic
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, and teacher.
Heuberger was born in Graz
Graz
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, the son of a bandage
Bandage
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manufacturer. He initially studied engineering, but gave it up in 1876, and turned to music. He studied at the Graz Conservatory (where he studied with Robert Fuchs
Robert Fuchs
Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
), and later transferred to Vienna
Vienna
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, where he eventually became the chorus master of the Wiener Akademischer Gesangverein, conductor of the Wiener Singakademie, director of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein (Vienna Men's Choral Association), and a teacher at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien. Although Heuberger wrote many opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
s, ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
s, choral works, and songs, he is best known today for his operetta Der Opernball
Der Opernball (operetta)
Der Opernball is an operetta in three acts with music by Richard Heuberger, and libretto by Victor Léon and Heinrich von Waldberg, based on the 1876 comedy Die Rosa-Dominos by Alfred Charlemagne Delacour and Alfred Hennequin. Alexander von Zemlinsky assisted Heuberger with the orchestration...
, which he composed in 1898.
He taught at the Vienna Conservatory from 1902. Among his pupils was Clemens Krauss
Clemens Krauss
Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss.-Biography:...
.
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)
External links
- Biography (Another good biography)