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Composer 1859–1924

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. He was also prominent among the Tin Pan Alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compo…

Also credited on7 works

Babes in Toyland
Gypsy Lady
Mlle. Modiste
Sweethearts
The Century Girl
The Fortune Teller
The Red Mill

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In the literature8 passages

  • Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was born in Dublin and at the age of twenty-four became the principal cellist in the court orchestra at Stuttgart before emigrating to the U.S., where he played with the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera . His first operetta, Prince Ananius was a success in 1894. “There were always hints of his Irish heritage…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • By 1927, Kern had long since earned the mantle allegedly bestowed on him by Victor Herbert (1859–1924), the composer of Naughty Marietta (1910) and dozens of other Broadway shows, as the most distinguished American-born theater composer. For more than a decade Kern had been the model and envy of Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers, who were emb…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Victor Herbert, an Irish emigre who had studied inVienna, made a conscious effort to reproduce Viennese operetta in the United States, but what he wrote was no more Viennese than the early Florentine operas were revivals of Greek tragedy which they purported to be. What Herbert actually did (and the Florentine Monodists as well) was to st…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • In 1903, Glen MacDonough composed "verses" for Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • And in 1905 the fecund Henry Blossom wrote the words for Victor Herbert's successful M11e. Modiste containing lines like:ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • Victor Herbert in 1913 produced Sweethearts with lyrics by Robert B. Smith. Throughout, one will find the vacuous, empty, nonspecific words that accurately represent other lyricists of the period.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt

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