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Gasparone

Karl (also Carl) Joseph Millöcker (April 29, 1842 – December 31, 1899), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.

He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The international success of Der Bettelstudent (1882) enabled him to retire from conducting, but he never achieved a comparable success. He died in Baden bei Wien; on 27 October 1900 he was buried in an honorary grave on Vienna's Zentralfriedhof (group 32, A35). His operetta Gasparone was first played in 1884.

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Gasparone ist eine Operette in drei Akten von Carl Millöcker. Das Libretto verfassten Friedrich Zell und Richard Genée. Uraufführung war am 26. Januar 1884 am Theater an der Wien.

Orchester : Zwei Flöten, zwei Oboen, zwei Klarinetten, zwei Fagotte, vier Hörner, zwei Trompeten, drei Posaunen, Schlagwerk und Streicher.
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