Biography
Edmund Eysler was born on 12 March 1874 in Vienna and died there on 4 October 1949. At the suggestion of composer Leo Fall, he studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory of the Society of the Friends of Music. After early years as a conductor at the "Venice in Vienna" amusement park, his 1903 operetta "Bruder Straubinger" at the Theater an der Wien brought him his breakthrough. Over the following decades he wrote around 60 operettas, including "Der lachende Ehemann" (1913) and "Die gold'ne Meisterin" (1927), which became the greatest success of his career. Because of his Jewish origin, his works were banned under Nazi rule; hidden by friends, Eysler survived in Vienna. He died in 1949 after a fall from a stage and was given an honorary grave at Vienna's Zentralfriedhof.
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