![]() ![]() With the worldwide success of The Merry Widow (1905), his notoriety only increases, reinforced by new successes : The Count of Luxembourg, Gypsy love and Eva. Vienna becomes his adopted homeland and thanks to great successes, he can soon live exclusively from his compositions, almost entirely devoted to the operetta.įrom his first two games, Wiener Frauen and Der Rastelbinder, he is considered the future master of the operetta. This career leads him to Pula, Trieste, Budapest and, de 1899 à 1902, in Vienna. In Vienna, he plays in his father's orchestra and, gradually climbing the ladder, he becomes its successor. He becomes the youngest Kapellmeister (conductor) Austro-Hungarian army soldier (The famous "KuK Armee"). Lehár began his musical career as an orchestral musician in Wuppertal. Johannes Brahms le recommande au professeur Mandyczewski, one of the most respected and influential of the time. ![]() In 1880, his father is transferred to Budapest with his regimentyears, and Lehár attends the school of the Piarist fathers then the Gymnasium (Secondary school) de ?ternberk.Įn 1882, he entered the Prague Conservatory and studied, according to his father's wish, the violin with Anton Bennewitz, la théorie musicale avec Josef Foerster et la composition avec Antonín Dvo?ák qui l'encourage à persévérer. But to emigrate to the United States or the United Kingdom, it's not sufficient.Įrnst Décsey, Lehár's first biographer, quote the legend, not proven, of the family that the Lehár descend from a Marquis Le Harde, member of the Grand Army, captured by the Russians, who would have fled to the north of Moravia and found refuge with the peasants.yearsįranz Lehár first studied the piano. His English, howeverhowever, is very weak, although he can very well distinguish good translations from his operettas from bad ones. He becomes the friend of Puccini and other Italian composers, exchanging experiences and scores. He then learned Italian during his stay in Pula (Current Croatia), where he works as a military conductor. His linguistic skills also enabled him to understand other Slavic languages well. In his military booklet, we can read that it measures 1,65 meter, has blue eyes, blond hair, speak and write German, Hungarian and Bohemian (variant of Czech), and that he lives in Schönwald, in Moravia. ![]() He will continue to sign his name in Hungarian fashion, first name ("Lehár Ferenc"), with a diacritical mark of elongation on the "a" (á). German being the language of the army, Franz becomes bilingual very early, but he always practiced Hungarian, his mother tongue until his death. Franz junior was born the following year. Random assignmentsin Moravia., Franz Lehár father meets a young Hungarian girl, Christine Neubrand whom he marries in Komárno in 1869. ![]() The name Lehár indicates the Czech origin of the family. Lehar's ancestors were until the beginning of the 18th century small farmers in Lesnitz and Brünnles, near Hohenstadt, in North Moravia. His brother Anton, like his father, embarks on a military career, that he ends with the rank of general and knight of the military order of Marie-Thérèse. Franz Lehár is the son of the marching band chief of the 50th infantry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army Franz Lehár (1838-1898) and Christine Neubrand (1849-1906). ![]()
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