Eugen Lindner

Eugen Lindner (b. 11th December 1858; d. 1915) was a German composer, notably of opera. A friend of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, he was an important figure in musical scene in Weimar before the First World War. Lindner's earlier career was spent in Leipzig, where his opera "Ramiro" was first staged in September 1886 at the Neues Stadttheater, with Mahler conducting in his own first season there.

Other works include the opera "Der Meisterdieb" ("The Master Thief") to a libretto by Gustav Kastroff and the composer after Arthur Fitger's poem; and many songs (over fifty) for voice and piano in a romantic and dramatic, sometimes declamatory style, using post-Wagnerian harmony, mostly published by the Hermann Seemann Nachfolger Verlag to texts by such poets as Carl Busse, Ada Negri, Otto Roquette and Emil zu Schönaich-Carolath, whose almost exact contemporary he was.

Lindner was sometimes attracted to exotic or eastern subjects, typified by the short song cycle "Lieder des Saidjah".