!!!Genée, Richard

b. Danzig (Poland), Feb. 7, 1823, 
d. Baden (Lower Austria), June 15, 1895, librettist, composer, 
conductor. 1868-1878 musical director at the Theater an der Wien; 
wrote numerous libretti, some of them in collaboration with C.  
Walzel, for F. von  Suppe ("Boccaccio", 1879), J.  Strauss ("Die 
Fledermaus", 1874; "Cagliostro in Wien", 1875; "Das Spitzentuch der 
Koenigin", 1880; "Eine Nacht in Venedig", 1883) and K.  Milloecker 
("Der Bettelstudent", 1882).

!Further works
Operas: Der Geiger von Tirol, 1857; Rosita, 1864; 
operettas, songs, choral music.

!Literature
F. Schwarz, R. G., 1941; A. Bauer, 150 Jahre Theater an 
der Wien, 1952; B. Hiltner-Hennenberg, R. G. Eine Bibliographie, 1998.



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