Joseph Hellmesberger

(1855-1907)

"Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket" (1875), oil on canvas, 60.3 x 46.6 cm, of the painter James Whistler, contemporary of Hellmesberger (Institute of Arts, Detroit)

The musician Joseph (Pepi) Hellmesberger, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Vienna on the 9th April 1855, the same year of the composers Aggházy, Chausson, Edwards, Esposito, Hervey, Hummel, Kauffmann, Klicka, Mayer, Mendelssohn, Röntgen, Rückauf, Solomon, Valente. He died in Vienna on the 26th April 1907

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Joseph Hellmesberger

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"Capitän Ahlström" was performed in 1880 in Vienna

"Der Graf von Gleichen und seine Frauen" was performed in 1880 in Vienna

"Das Veilchenmädel" was performed on the 27th of February 1904 in Vienna (Carlstheater (Carl-Theater) (Theater in der Leopoldstadt)

"Wien bei Nacht" has been put on the stage in November 1904 in Vienna

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