Musicians - Leo Fall

Home > Listing Index > Musicians > Leo Fall

	Musicians - Leo Fall

Leo Fall (born Olomouc, 2 February 1873 - died Vienna, 16 September 1925) was an Austrian composer of operettas.

Leo (or Leopold) Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall (1848-1922), a bandmaster and composer, who settled in Berlin. The younger Fall studied at the Vienna Conservatory before rejoining his father and the varied musical life of Berlin. In 1895 he began a new career as an operetta conductor in Hamburg, also starting to compose. From 1904 onwards he devoted himself to composing. While successful than his contemporary Franz Lehár, he was nevertheless capable of producing wonderful melodies and his work was beautifully orchestrated.

His best known operetta is Madame Pompadour which remained in the repertory in Germany and Austria throughout the 20th century. His opera Die goldene Vogel, which was performed in Dresden in 1920 with Richard Tauber and Elisabeth Rethberg was less successful.

Stage works

Der Rebell (1905)
Der fidele Bauer (1907)
Die Dollarprinzessin (1907)
Brüderlein fein (1909)
The Eternal Waltz (1911)
Der liebe Augustin (1912)
Der Frau Ministerpräsident (1914)
Die Kaiserin (1915)
Die Rose von Stambul (1916)
Der goldene Vogel (1920)
Madame Pompadour (1922)
Jugend im Mai (1926)

Fall, Leo Fall, Leo Fall, Leo Fall, Leo Fall, Leo

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Leo Fall ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Leo Fall; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay