Carl Millöcker

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Carl Millöcker, 1865
House where he lived and where he died, Baden near Vienna, Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Platz 8 (previously: Bahnhofplatz 8)
Carl Millöcker's grave in Vienna's central cemetery

Carl Joseph Millöcker (also: Karl Millöcker ) (born April 29, 1842 in Vienna ( Laimgrube ); † December 31, 1899 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian operetta composer .

Live and act

Carl Millöcker, son of the goldworker Carl Franz Millöcker and his wife Maria, b. Laber, started playing the flute at an early age. He was a student at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ) and at the age of 16 he already became a flautist in the Theater in der Josefstadt under Franz von Suppè . On his recommendation, he was engaged as a theater conductor at the Thalia Theater in Graz in 1864 , where he performed his first (one-act) operettas Der tote Gast and Die lustigen Binder . In the same capacity he came to the Harmonietheater in Vienna in 1866 , where he made the acquaintance of Ludwig Anzengruber . In Vienna he had a. a. brought the one-act Diana to the stage (1867 in the Harmonietheater), but a completed joint work with Anzengruber did not come on stage due to the economic situation of the theater; after that he worked for a short time at the German theater in Pest . There u had a. his three-act operetta Die Fraueninsel Premiere.

In 1869 he was appointed second conductor at the Theater an der Wien . He held this position until the begging student's success in 1883 enabled him to live as a freelance composer. During this period, in addition to a large number of antics, he wrote a number of operettas, such as: Der Regimentstambour (1869), Ein Abenteuer in Wien (1870), Das verunschene Schloß (with chants in Upper Austrian dialect, 1877), Countess Dubarry (1879, New version of Theo Mackeben as Die Dubarry 1931), Apajune, der Wassermann (1880), Die Jungfrau von Belleville (1881) and finally the begging student (1881) listed countless times , who primarily established Millöcker's reputation, and Gasparone (1884), Der Feldprediger (1885), The Seven Swabians (1887), Poor Jonathan (1890), The Sunday Child ( 1892), The Trial Kiss (1894) and Northern Lights (1896) followed.

From September 1873 to December 1875, Millöcker published monthly books with piano music under the title Musikalische Presse , including some of his own piano pieces. In the second year he published Mozart's ballet music for the pantomime Les petits riens (KV 299b) for the first time .

Millöcker had, according to the records in his diary, suffered a "minor stroke" on January 8, 1892. From 1891 to 1899 he spent with his partner and future wife, Caroline Hofschneider († December 7, 1901 in Liesing ), as well as “cook and chambermaid”, the months of May to October at the latest in Baden near Vienna in a former one near the Weilburg in the Albrechtsgasse 6 located "Hauerhäuschen", whose large garden he "beautified" with tropical and Mediterranean plants and where he wrote the music for his two last operettas during the years of his stay. After the decision made in September 1899 not to return to Vienna, Millöcker moved into "an apartment that was closer to the train station and more suitable for winter stays" at Bahnhofplatz 8 (today: Conrad-von-Hötzendorf-Platz 8); - the coming “house of mourning”. On December 29, 1899, Millöcker suffered a semi-paralyzing stroke, from the consequences of which he died around 2:30 a.m. on December 31, 1899.

Millöcker was a Freemason. In 1875 he was accepted into the “Future” lodge in Pressburg (today: Bratislava).

Millöcker - the last composer from the trio of Suppè - Strauss -Millöcker - was consecrated on January 2nd, 1900 after a memorial service in the Protestant church, Baden , in the chapel of the local cemetery of St. Helena and buried there on January 7th, 1900 "provisionally" . He was reburied in the grave of honor (group 32 A, number 35) intended for him in the Vienna Central Cemetery on October 27, 1900; the grave monument was created by the sculptor Josef Tuch .

Personal life and estate settlement

Memorial plaque from 1925 on the house where he lived and died in Baden near Vienna

Millöcker, who married the coloratura singer Karoline Kling on July 7, 1865 in Graz and separated from her after a few years, appointed his second wife, Caroline, to be the universal heiress; By will he left all of his original scores to the Baden municipal museum . After the death of his daughter Emma Gärdtner in 1956, another part of his estate came to the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

Awards, honors, prizes (selection)

  • 1900: Millöckergasse was named after him. The street previously known as Theatergasse connects Linke Wienzeile with Lehárgasse to the right of the Theater an der Wien . Here is the former main portal of the theater, the Papagenotor.
  • 1913: Millöckergasse, Baden near Vienna.
  • 1925: On May 10, a memorial plaque attached to the house of death, dedicated by the Baden singers and executed by Hans Mauer , was ceremoniously unveiled.
  • 1937: Unveiling of a memorial plaque at Gumpendorfer Strasse 17 in Vienna 6, Mariahilf , where the house where he was born stood.
  • 1949: A special postage stamp was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Millöcker's death.
  • 1965: Name of the Gasparoneweg in Vienna- Favoriten ( Rothneusiedl ).
  • 1992: On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the operetta composers Carl Zeller and Carl Millöcker, the Austrian Post issued a special postage stamp (with a nominal value of 6.00  ÖS ) (first day of issue was April 30, 1992).
  • In Stuttgart , a street and the stop of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn (line U2) are named after Millöcker .

Works

Stage works
title genus file libretto premiere Place, theater
The dead guest operetta 1 act Ludwig Harisch, based on a romance by Heinrich Zschokke February 11, 1865 Graz , Thalia Theater
The two binders operetta 1 act Gustav Stoltze December 21, 1865 Graz, Thalia Theater
Diana operetta 1 act Josef Braun January 2, 1867 Vienna, Harmonietheater
The bagpiper operetta 1 act Ludwig Anzengruber 19th September 2015 Strasshof , KUMST
The thief operetta 1 act Alois Berla 1868/1869 Pest (city) , German Theater Pest
The Fraueninsel operetta 3 acts Cogniard after Le royaume des femmes by Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniard 1868/1869 Pest, German Theater
The regimental drum operetta 2 acts Heinrich Börnstein October 23, 1869 Vienna, theater in the Josefstadt
Adventure in Vienna Singspiel 3 acts Alois Berla January 20, 1873 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The enchanted castle operetta 5 acts Alois Berla March 30, 1878 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
Countess Dubarry (renamed Die Dubarry in Berlin in 1931 ) operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell October 31, 1879 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
Apajune, the Aquarius operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell December 18, 1880 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The Virgin of Belleville operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell, after La pucelle de Belleville by Paul de Kock October 29, 1881 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The beggar student operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell, after Fernande by Victorien Sardou , and Le Guitarréro by Halévy / Eugène Scribe December 6, 1882 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
Gasparone operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell January 26, 1884 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The field preacher operetta 3 acts Hugo Wittmann and Alois Wohlmuth, based on The Strange Bride Chamber by Gustav Schilling October 31, 1884 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The Vice-Admiral operetta 1 prologue and 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell October 9, 1886 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The seven Swabians Volksoper 3 acts Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer October 29, 1887 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
Poor Jonathan operetta 3 acts Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer 4th January 1890 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The Sunday child operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell January 16, 1892 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The test kiss operetta 3 acts Richard Genée and F. Zell December 22, 1894 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The northern lights operetta 3 acts Hugo Wittmann December 2, 1896 Vienna, Theater an der Wien
Cousin Bobby
Pasticcio arranged by Ernst Reiterer 		operetta 3 acts Benno Jacobsohn and Franz Wagner, arrangement by Bertram Sänger 1906 Vienna
Other works

In addition to his over 100 stage works (operettas, singspiele, music for antics, etc.), Millöcker composed piano pieces, around 90 songs, dances and marches, choirs, chamber music and arranged music by other composers for orchestra, piano (two and four hands) or chamber music ensembles.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The rented apartment building, designed and built by Baden's city architect Josef Schmidt (1838–1910), was only completed in 1897 and was called Komarek'sches Haus when Millöckers moved in (on the second floor) , as the client, Karl Komarek, went through the administrative procedure and thereafter Representatives of the municipal council had been publicly criticized. - See: Local News. (...) "Zawrzelhaus" - "Komarekhaus". In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 69/1898 (18th volume), August 27, 1898, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt.
    As a bleed on the right: at the same address as Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843–1922) used before the First World War , also built in 1889 by city architect Schmidt ( Stöckl ), which originally should have been demolished to widen the alley portal.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Millöcker, first name here "Karl". Retrieved on June 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Local messages. Carl Millöcker † .. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 3, 1900, p. 04 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  3. ^ A b Alfred Ehrmann:  Millöcker's last days .. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 4th 1930, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  4. ↑ † Karl Millöcker .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , January 2, 1900, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  5. ↑ Local messages. Capellmeister Carl Millöcker. In:  Badener Zeitung , December 30, 1899, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bztand
    Small Chronicle. Karl Millöcker .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , December 30, 1899, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  6. ↑ Local messages. Millöcker † .. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 6, 1900, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  7. ^ Burial of the corpse of the composer Carl Millöcker .. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 10, 1900, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  8. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Carl Millöcker . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on September 8, 2011.
  9. ^ The thirtieth anniversary of Carl Millöcker's death. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 1/1930, January 1, 1930, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  10. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Carl Millöcker In: viennatouristguide.at,
  11. ↑ † Karl Millöcker .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , January 2, 1900, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  12. ↑ Local messages. A valuable asset. In:  Badener Zeitung , January 10, 1900, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  13. ^ Julius Böheimer: Streets and alleys in Baden near Vienna. Lexicon of streets, alleys, squares, paths, walkways, bridges . Grasl, Baden 1997, ISBN 3-85098-236-X , p. 81.
  14. ↑ Local. Visit of the Frankfurt singers and unveiling of the Millöcker memorial plaque. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 39/1925, May 16, 1925, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt, Photo report on the ceremonial unveiling of the memorial plaque with the Frankfurter Neebschen men's choir. In:  Wiener Bilder , May 17, 1925, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrb.
  15. ↑ Entry on the 50th anniversary of Karl Millöcker's death in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration)
  16. ↑ Entry on the 150th birthday of the operetta composers Carl Zeller and Carl Millöcker in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration)
personal data
SURNAME Millöcker, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millöcker, Karl; Millöcker, Carl Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian operetta composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1899
Place of death Baden near Vienna