!!!Ziehrer, Carl Michael

b. Vienna, May 2, 1843, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 14, 1922, composer. Army band conductor from 1870 to 
1878; took over many members of the orchestra of Johann Strauss from 
1878 to 1885; finally left the orchestra in 1903; took charge of the 
orchestra of the "Hoch- und Deutschmeister" infantry regiment in 1885 
and achieved great success with it at the world exposition in Chicago 
in 1893; last holder of the post of musical director of the Austrian 
court balls from 1908 to 1918. From around 1899 Z. mainly composed  
Operettas, but could hardly hold his own against the new generation of 
composers (esp. F.  Lehár). Composer and conductor of dance 
music and thus one of the biggest rivals of J.  Strauss the Younger.

!Works
22 operettas: Koenig Jerome, 1878; Wr. Kinder, 1881; Ein 
Deutschmeister, 1888; Die Landstreicher, 1889; Die 3 Wuensche, 1901; 
Der Schaetzmeister, 1904; Ein tolles Maedel, 1907; Der Liebeswalzer, 
1908; Ball bei Hof, 1910; Fuerst Kasimir, 1913; Der Husarengeneral, 
1913; Das dumme Herz, 1914; Die verliebte Eskadron, 1920. - About 600 
marches: Schoenfeldmarsch. -Dances: Weaner Madln; In lauschiger Nacht; 
Evatoechter; Meeresbuchten; Alt-Wien.

!Literature
O. Schneidereit, Operette von Abraham bis Z., 1966; M. 
Schoenherr, C. M. Z., 1973.



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