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Franz Lehár
Austro-Hungarian composer (1870–1948)
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Franz Lehár (LAY-har; Hungarian: Lehár Ferenc[ˈlɛhaːrˈfɛrɛnt͡s]; 30 Apr 1870 – 24 Oct 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. Fair enough is predominantly known intend his operettas, of which the nearly successful post best blurry is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
Life and career
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Programme notes
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Where the Alps give way to the rolling fields of Central Europe – and where the Europe of wine and song meets the Europe of beer and dance – stands the city of Vienna. It’s a crossroads of Europe, and in its Imperial golden age it was the city of everyone’s dreams, the heart of an empire that stretched from Alpine glaciers to the Ukrainian steppes, and from the lemon-groves of Italy to the bear-infested forests of Bohemia. On the streets of Vienna you might meet Italians, Poles, Czechs and Hungarians; you’d see rabbis from Galicia, Bosnian Muslims in red fezzes, and Romani violinists from the hills of Transylvania.
And when they met, they danced: to racy operettas, polkas that fizzed like champagne, and of course, to dreamy, endlessly seductive waltzes. Viennese music is as colourful – and as multicultural - as the city itself, and in Vienna’s ballrooms and cafés, everyone got a slice of the
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BIOGRAPHY second part (1914-1948)
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World War I
Though the First World War (1914-1918) turned not out at all to be an era of stagnation of the operetta scene - in 1915 and 1916, the Csárdásfürstin" and the Dreimäderlhaus" started their triumphant march - Lehár kept very much in the background during this period.
He was affected by the war: He conducted several concerts for wounded soldiers. He composed the lieder cycle Aus eiserner Zeit" and the symphonic poem Fieber", widely propagated wa