!!!Millöcker, Karl

b. Vienna, April 29, 1842, 
d. Baden (Lower Austria), Dec. 31, 1899, composer of operettas. 
1858 flautist in the orchestra of the Theater in der Josefstadt, 1864 
(on recommendation of F. von  Suppe) conductor at a theatre in 
Graz; later at the Harmonietheater in Vienna, where he worked with L.  
Anzengruber, 1868 in Budapest, 1869-1883 at the Theater a. d. 
Wien. Together with J.  Strauss the Younger and F. von Suppe the 
third representative of the classic Vienna operetta. His works are 
particularly distinguished by solid composition and skill. The most 
important interpreter of the later works was A.  Girardi. Tomb of 
honour at Vienna Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof, 1901).

!Works
Der tote Gast, 1865; Die lustigen Binder, 1865; Diana, 1867; 
Fraueninsel, 1868; Abenteuer in Wien, 1873; Das verwunschene Schloss, 
1878; Graefin Dubarry, 1879; Apajune, 1880; Die Jungfrau von 
Belleville, 1881; Der Bettelstudent, 1882; Gasparone, 1884; Der 
Feldprediger, 1884; Der Vizeadmiral, 1886; Die sieben Schwaben, 1887; 
Der arme Jonathan, 1890; Das Sonntagskind, 1892; Der Probekuss, 1894; 
Das Nordlicht, 1896. - Theatre music for folk plays and burlesques.

!Literature
C. Preiss, K. M., 1905; E. Nick, Vom Wr. Walzer zur 
Wr. Operette, 1954; NDB.



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