Viktor Nessler

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Victor Nessler

Viktor (or Victor) Ernst Nessler (28 January 1841 – 28 May 1890) was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig.

Nessler was born at Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace. At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled Fleurette (1864). To complete his knowledge of music Nessler went to Leipzig to study with Moritz Hauptmann.[1] In 1870, he was appointed chorus master and later conductor of the Caroltheater, Leipzig.[2][3]

His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably

Artur Nikisch composed an orchestral arrangement of material from Der Trompeter von Säkkingen.[citation needed] Besides a number of other operas, Nessler wrote many songs and choral works; but it is with the Trompeter von Säkkingen that his name is most closely associated. In 1895 a monument to him by the sculptor Alfred Marzolff was erected in Strasbourg, the place of his death.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Neszler, Victor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 412.
  2. ^ "Nessler, Viktor E(rnst)" (2003). In The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. (Retrieved April 01, 2008), <http://www.credoreference.com>./
  3. ^ "Nessler, Victor" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. John Warrack and Ewan West. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. (Retrieved April 01, 2008), <http://www.oxfordreference.com>./

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