DEATH OF FRANZ LEHAR
EMBERS of the older generation particularly will have learned with regret of the death, near Salzburg on October 24, of the Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, at the age of 78. His name _ recalls’ the gracious days of the pro-gramme-balls, once so popular iri New Zealand, and dancing to such famous waltzes as those from The Merry Widow and The Count of Luxemburg. Lehar started his musical life studying violin and theory, but on the advice of Dvorak he took up composition. His greatest successand it remains one of the greatest of. all light Opera successes-was The Merry Widow, which was first presented at the Theater-an-der Wien in 1905 and later ran to the ends of the earth. The next season it was produced in America and had more than 5,000 per-
lormances. it was played more than 1,000 times in London, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, and in Buenos Aires it ran simultaneously in five theatres in five different languages. In 1924 Lehar formed a strong friendship with Richard Tauber, who died at the beginning of this year. Lehar coma a
posed for him the operettas Paganini, Frederica, and The Land of Smiles. His works also include composition in absolute forms such as sonatas, several symphonic poems, marches, and dances," [A recorded version of The Merry Widow will be broadcast from 3YA at 8.25 p.m, on November 20.) EE LT A
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 9
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