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Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (May 4 1860 in Vienna, died August 21945 in Berlin) was a Austrian late Romantic composer of Czech ancestry. He is remembered today mainly for the overture to his opera Donna Diana, composed in 1894. The overture is a popular stand-alone piece at symphony concerts and also served as the theme for the radio (1947-1955) series Challenge of the Yukon, which later migrated to the TV series (1955-1958) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Other works include Ritter Blaubart - A Fairy-Tale Opera in Three Acts (composed 1915-1917), recorded by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2002, and the first of his four string quartets (composed in 1921), which received its world premiere recording from the Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna in 1996. Also a number of symphonies including #2 "Ironische" and #5 "Tanz Symphoni".

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