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Ludwig Held
( Viennese pictures from February 25, 1900)

Ludwig Held (born April 14, 1837 in Regensburg , † March 2, 1900 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and librettist.

After moving to Vienna, Ludwig Held was secretary at the Theater an der Wien during the management of Maximilian Steiner . He then worked as a journalist for the Neue Blatt and as a theater advisor for the Neue Wiener Tagblatt and wrote operetta libretti and antics, some for his son Leo Held .

On March 4, 1900, Held was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery with an extremely large number of authors and artists (grave site: group 0, row 0, no. 158).

Works

Compiled from the catalogs of the Austrian National Library , Music Collection and the Vienna Library (as of February 2009) as well as from Anton Bauer: Operas and Operettas in Vienna .

Fiction

• The Marked , Roman. Continued in the Neue Wiener Tagblatt.

Stage works

• The carpenter , Schwank in 3 acts. Based on an idea by Delacour. G. Steiner, Vienna 1889.

Libretti

• The seamstress , farce with singing in 4 lifts. Music by Karl Millöcker . Premiere: 1880 Vienna
• Found money , posse in 3 files. Music by Julius Stern. Premiere: October 18, 1884, Theater an der Wien.
• The vagabond , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto after Émile Souvestre together with Moritz West . Music by Carl Zeller . Premiere: October 30, 1886, Carltheater .
• Bellman , comic opera in 3 acts, libretto together with Moritz West. Music by Franz von Suppè . Premiere: February 26th, 1887, Theater an der Wien.
• Der Schlosserkönig , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Benjamin Schier. Music by Eduard Kremser . Premiere: January 12, 1889, Theater an der Wien.
• The bird dealer , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Moritz West. Music by Carl Zeller; Premiere: January 10, 1891, Theater an der Wien.
• Der Obersteiger , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Moritz West. Music by Carl Zeller. Premiere: January 5th, 1894, Carltheater.
• The model , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Victor Léon . Music by Franz von Suppè. Premiere: October 4th, 1895, Carltheater.
• The swallows , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Moritz West. Music by Leo Held . Premiere: February 12, 1897, Theater an der Wien.
• The Cognac King , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Victor Léon after Eugène Scribe and Jean-François Bayard “La Frontiere de Savoie”. Music by Josef Franz Wagner . Premiere: February 20, 1897, Carltheater.
• The Parisian , operetta in 3 acts. Libretto together with Victor Léon. Music by Franz von Suppè. Premiere: January 26th, 1898, Carltheater.
• The stepmama , operetta in 3 acts. Music by Leo Held. Premiere: February 20, 1900, Theater an der Wien.
• The sniffer , farce with singing in 3 acts. Libretto based on an idea by Poole. Music by Leo Held. Premiere: Vienna, 1900 (?)

literature

• Anton Bauer: Operas and Operettas in Vienna . Böhlau, Vienna 1955.
• Hero Ludwig. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 255.
• Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 3. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 131.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 522.
• Austrian music lexicon . Volume 2. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 ; P. 730f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journalists and writers' association “Concordia” .. In:  Wiener Zeitung , March 3, 1900, p. 14, center left (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Deaths .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , extra edition, March 5, 1900, p. 6, top left (online at ANNO ).