Carl Millöcker

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title: "Carl Millöcker" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1842-births", "1899-deaths", "composers-from-vienna", "austrian-romantic-composers", "composers-from-austria-hungary", "conductors-(music)-from-austria-hungary", "austrian-opera-composers", "austrian-male-opera-composers", "burials-at-the-vienna-central-cemetery", "university-of-music-and-performing-arts-vienna-alumni", "19th-century-austrian-classical-composers", "19th-century-austrian-male-musicians"] description: "Austrian composer and conductor (1842–1899)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Millöcker" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker ( – ), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. NOTOC He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The first was Der tote Gast, an operetta in one act, premiered in 1865 with libretto by Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke.

The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting. However, he never achieved a comparable success afterward. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Agnes_Palmisano_Trio_–I_und_mei_Bua(aus_„Drei_Paar_Schuhe“)_Live_Brigittenau_2025.ogg" caption="Song from Carl Millöcker’s operetta ''Drei Paar Schuhe'' (1871), trio arrangement 2025"] ::

Carl Millöcker died in Baden bei Wien; on 31 December 1899. He was buried in an honorary grave in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof cemetery (group 32, A35).{{cite web |url = http://www.viennatouristguide.at/Friedhoefe/Zentralfriedhof/Index_32A_Thumbs/z_index_32A_kl.htm | title = Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Ehrengräber Gruppe 32 A | access-date = 11 October 2007| last = Abraham | first = Hedwig | publisher = Vienna Tourist Guide | language = German}} | url = http://b2b.wien.info/data/artikel-db/e/Famous_Musicians.doc | title = In the Footsteps of Vienna's Famous Musicians | access-date = 11 October 2007| author = (Heike) Tita Büttner |date=March 2007 | format = MS Word | publisher = Vienna Tourist Board | page =12 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080228213548/http://b2b.wien.info/data/artikel-db/e/Famous_Musicians.doc |archive-date = 28 February 2008}}

Works

See List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker.

Notes

References

• Lamb, Andrew (1992), 'Millöcker, Carl' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)

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