Alfred Zamara

Alfred Zamara at a young age

Alfred Zamara (born April 28, 1863 in Vienna ; † August 11, 1940 there ) was an Austrian composer and harpist.

life and work

He was the son of the Italian musician Antonio Zamara (1823-1901), who had moved to Vienna . Like his father, Alfred Zamara became a harp professor at the Vienna Conservatory. He played at the Vienna Hofburgtheater. In 1884 he wrote the operetta The Double . Victor Léon provided the libretto. The play was premiered in Munich in 1886 at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz and adopted the following year at the Theater an der Wien .

He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 56B, row G2, number 18).

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  Alfred Zamara in 1901

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  Alfred Zamara burial place

Works

Operas

• The Guelph Bride. 1894
• The goldsmith of Toledo. 1919 (together with Julius Bernhard Stern based on melodies by Jacques Offenbach )

Operettas

• The lookalike. Premiere 1886 Munich, Theater am Gärtnerplatz ( Score  - Internet Archive , Libretto ).
• The Queen of Arreja. Text by Léon
• The Lord Abbé. Text by Léon and Franz Josef Brakl , premiered in 1889 Munich, Theater am Gärtnerplatz

literature

• Christian Fastl: Zamara (family). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Zamara, Alfred . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1890, p. 131 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Alfred Zamara in the International Music Score Library Project