Viktor Nessler

Viktor Nessler

Viktor (or Victor) Ernst Nessler (28 January, 1841 – 28 May, 1890) was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig.

Nessler was born at Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace. At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled "Fleurette" (1864). To complete his knowledge of music Nessler went to Leipzig to study with Moritz Hauptmann. In 1870, he was appointed chorus master and later conductor of the Caroltheater, Leipzig. ["Nessler, Viktor E(rnst)" (2003). In "The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music". (Retrieved April 01, 2008), .] ["Nessler, Victor" "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera". John Warrack and Ewan West. Oxford University Press, 1996. "Oxford Reference Online". Oxford University Press. (Retrieved April 01, 2008), .]

His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably "Der Rattenfänger von Hameln" ("The Pied Piper of Hamelin") (1879) and "Der Trompeter von Säkkingen" (1884), based on the famous poem by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, were very popular in the 19th century. The great conductor Artur Nikisch composed an orchestral arrangement of material from "Der Trompeter von Säkkingen". Besides a number of other operas, Nessler wrote many songs and choral works; but it is with the "Trompeter von Säkkingen" that his name is most closely associated. In 1895 a monument to him by the sculptor Alfred Marzolff was erected in Strasbourg, the place of his death.

Works

* "Fleurette" (1864)
* "Irmgard" (1876)
* "Der Rattenfänger von Hameln" (1879)
* "Der wilde Jäger" (1881)
* "Der Trompeter von Säkkingen" (1884)
*"Otto der Schütz " (1886)
*"Die Rose von Strassburg" (1890)

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