Carl Zeller

Composer

1842 – 1898

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Who was Carl Zeller?

Carl Adam Johann Nepomuk Zeller was an Austrian composer of operettas.

Zeller was born in Sankt Peter in der Au, the only child of physician Johann Zeller and Maria Anna Elizabeth. Zeller's father died before his first birthday, after which his mother remarried Ernest Friedinger. In 1875, Zeller married Anna Maria Schwetz.

Zeller had a fine soprano voice, and sang in the Vienna Boys' Choir before studying and composition in the University of Vienna. He worked as a civil servant at the Imperial Ministry of Education while composing songs, choral works, and a number of operettas, the best-known of which is Der Vogelhändler. All of his librettos were written by Moritz West, often together with Ludwig Held.

Legal troubles, including a perjury conviction, ended Zeller's career at the ministry and led to prison and public disgrace in the mid-1890s. After an injury in 1895 from falling on the ice, he spent his last years physically and then mentally ill. Zeller died of pneumonia in Baden bei Wien at the age of 56.

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Born
Jun 19, 1842
Sankt Peter in der Au
Also known as
  • Zeller, Carl
Nationality
  • Austria
Profession
Education
  • University of Vienna
Died
Aug 17, 1898
Baden District, Austria

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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