Franz Doppler

Albert Franz Doppler (16 October 1821 – 27 July 1883), was a flute virtuoso and a composer best known for his flute music. He also wrote one German and several Hungarian operas for Budapest, all produced with great success. His ballet music was popular during his lifetime.

Life

Doppler was born in

Doppler composed chiefly for the flute, as well as opera (a style that is prominent even in his showpieces for flute), composing many pieces including concertos, showpieces, and many flute duets, to be played by himself and his brother Karl. His music contains aspects of Russian and Hungarian music. His operas included Judith (his only German opera), and a Russian work entitled Benyovsky. He wrote seven operas and fifteen ballets in total (which were quite popular in their time) and was a brilliant orchestrator.

He is also known for the orchestral arrangements of six of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies published under his name. He was a student of Liszt, and Liszt set Doppler the exercise of orchestrating six Rhapsodies. Every single bar of these orchestrations was revised by Liszt upon publication, but he allowed Doppler's name to remain on the title page. (Liszt frequently collaborated with his students in this way which gave rise to the notion that he did not or could not orchestrate his own works)^{[citation needed]}

Selected works

Stage works

• Benyovszky vagy A kamcsatkai számuzött (Benyovsky, or the Changeling from Kamchatka), opera after August von Kotzebue, 1847
• Ilka és a huszártoborzó (Ilka and the Hussar Recruitment), comic opera, 1849
• Wanda, opera, 1853
• Két huszár (The Two Hussars), opera, 1853
• Salvator Rosa, melodrama, 1855
• Erzsébet opera, (Overture and Act I. Act II by Ferenc Erkel, Act III by Karl Doppler), 1857
• Judith opera, 1870

Other

• Airs Valaques, Op. 10
• Berceuse, Op. 15
• Mazurka de salon, Op. 16
• Nocturne, Op. 17
• Andante et Rondo, Op. 25 (for two flutes and a piano) 1870
• Fantaisie pastorale hongroise, Op. 26
• Souvenir du Rigi, Op. 34

References

• Zoltán Gárdonyi, (Albert) Franz [Ferenc] Doppler in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by Stanley Sadie, volume 7, pp. 502–503

External links

• Free scores by Franz Doppler at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)