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Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I.
May 22, 2024 · Victor Herbert (born Feb. 1, 1859, Dublin, Ire.—died May 26, 1924, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an Irish-born American composer of operettas and light music. Herbert became active in Germany as a composer and cello virtuoso (studying with Max Seifritz and Bernhard Cossmann, respectively).
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Composed operettas, cantatas, and top Tin Pan Alley songs. Victor August Herbert was born in Dublin, Ireland on February 1, 1859. After the death of his father in 1861, Herbert and his mother moved to the country home of his grandfather, painter, novelist and composer, Samuel Lover.
Jul 20, 2021 · The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Andrés Rivas, performs Victor Herbert's Serenade for String Orchestra in a livestreamed, physically distanced concert from the Fisher Center at Bard on...
Victor Herbert (1859–1924) was an Irish-American composer, conductor, and activist whose greatest artistic legacy lies in his role as the grandfather of the American musical theater. Certainly Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, and perhaps Stephen Schwartz have more immediate name recognition.
Born in Dublin and raised in Stuttgart, Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was a highly successful composer of operettas in America between 1890 and the beginning of World War I. Though he composed in a...
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