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    Franz Lehár - Wikipedia

    Born1870
    GenreClassical
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    Life and career

    Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), the eldest son of Franz Lehar Sr. (1838–1898), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the … See more

    Honours

    • He was elected an honorary citizen of Sopron in 1940.
    • In 1940 Hitler awarded him the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft.
    • There is a street in Vienna named after him. Additionally, several towns in th… See more

    Lehár recording

    In 1908, the German branch of The Gramophone Company Ltd (afterwards HMV) issued twelve extracts (mostly ensembles) from Lehár's latest operetta, Der Mann mit den drei Frauen, with the composer conducting… See more

    Anecdotes

    Gustav Mahler and his young wife Alma went to see Lehár's The Merry Widow in Vienna and loved it so much that they danced to its tunes as soon as they were home. From memory they played the waltz on the piano, but could n… See more

    Further reading

    • Bordman, Gerald. American Operetta. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
    • Gänzl, Kurt. The Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre (3 volumes). New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.… See more

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