Julius Hopp

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Julius Hopp (born May 18, 1819 in Graz , Austrian Empire , † August 28, 1885 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger and translator.

Live and act

The son of the actor and poet Friedrich Hopp became known in the 1860s and 1870s for his adaptations of Offenbach operettas, which were mainly performed in the Theater an der Wien , where Hopp was Kapellmeister. He composed parodies, antics and folk plays and emerged as a translator of French operas and operettas. In particular, Hopp's sparkling arrangements of the operettas by Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) ensured these works the success on Viennese soil and brought riches to theater entrepreneurs - although Hopp, due to his modesty, but not entirely through his own fault, went away empty-handed in that golden rain .

Of Hopp's own works - despite their richness of melody - Das Donauweibchen and Morilla were only medium successes. Margarethl and Fäustling, on the other hand, saw innumerable performances.

As the last of his theater stations, Julius Hopp worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt until 1880 . After he became hard of hearing and unable to work around this time, the days of sheer misery began for him . Hopp died on August 28, 1885 in the Lower Austrian state insane asylum on Brünnlfeld in Vienna-Alsergrund ; he was buried for rest on August 31, 1885 in the Vienna Central Cemetery . The cost of the funeral took Leopold Friedrich von Hofmann (1822-1885), General Director of the Vienna Court Theater.

Works

Performance of the opera Morilla in Elbing , 1886
  • Oesterreichs Rüsse (Libretto: Carl Paul), allegorical festival, premiere 1854
  • The groom in shirt sleeves or cousin Fritz (libretto: Karl Julius ), farce with singing, premiered in 1854
  • Eine Vorstadt-G'schicht ' (Libretto: OV Berg ), image of life with song and dance, world premiere 1858
  • A Viennese child (libretto: Therese Megerle ), folk piece with singing, premiered in 1858
  • Brother and Brothers (Libretto: Karl Stein ), character image with song and dance, premiered in 1858
  • In the village (Libretto: Therese Megerle), rural character painting with song and dance, premier 1858
  • A broken word (The inheritance of the orphan) (Libretto: Therese Megerle), piece with song and dance, premiere 1859
  • Zwei Mann von Hess (Libretto: Anton Langer ), original life picture with singing, premiered in 1860
  • Anna the beautiful waitress (libretto: H. Riedl ), character picture with song and dance, premiere 1860
  • Fesche Geister from yesteryear (The Child of the Regiment) (Libretto: OV Berg), folk piece with singing, premiere 1862
  • Margrethl / Margarethl and Fäustling (own libretto), parodic burlesque with music and dance, premiered in 1862
  • Ein Deutschmeister (Libretto: Karl Elmar ), operetta, premiered in 1863
  • Aurora's Secret (Libretto: Julius Megerle ), character painting with song, dance and ghost appearances, premier 1863
  • A light person (Libretto: OV Berg), Posse, WP 1863
  • He takes money on his wife (libretto: Franz Biringer ), Singspiel with dance, premiered in 1864
  • Herr Arthur Gareißl (libretto by A. Bahn ), farce with singing, premiered in 1864
  • Halbe Mensch (Libretto: OV Berg), picture from Volksleben, premier 1864
  • Der Postillion von Langenlois (Libretto: Julius Bittner ), parodying farce with singing, premiered in 1864
  • A foundling from Vienna (Libretto: Therese Megerle), pictures from folk life with singing, premiered in 1864
  • Die fesche Godel (libretto: Ferdinand Heim), sketches from popular life with singing, premiered in 1865
  • The Danube Woman and the Knight from Kahlenberg (Libretto: J. Hopp and Paul Krone ), romantic-comic operetta, 1866
  • On a volcano (Libretto: Alois Berla ), character picture with singing, WP 1867
  • Der Freischütz (own libretto), farce with song and dance, premiered in 1867
  • Morilla (own libretto), operetta, premiered in 1868
  • Countess Pepi or: Two well-known personalities (libretto after Countess Guste by David Kalisch ), posse in one act, world premiere 1871
  • Hammlet (own libretto), comical-parodistic operetta, premiered in 1874

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Theater and Art News. Julius Hopp †. In:  Die Presse , No. 237/1885 (XXXVIIIth year), August 29, 1885, p. 11, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  2. ↑ a b Theater and Art News. Julius Hopp †. In:  Die Presse , No. 237/1885 (XXXVIIIth year), August 29, 1885, p. 10, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  3. ↑ Vienna daily report. The funeral of the Capellmeister Julius Hopp. In:  Die Presse , No. 240/1885 (XXXVIIIth year), September 1, 1885, p. 10 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
personal data
SURNAME Hopp, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, arranger and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1885
Place of death Vienna