Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

When Shaw heard, in 1921, that Franz Lehár wanted to set his play Pygmalion to music, he sent word to Vienna that Lehár be instructed that he could not touch Pygmalion without infringing Shaw's copyright and that Shaw had " no intention of allowing the history of The Chocolate Soldier to be repeated "( only after Shaw's death was Pygmalion eventually adapted by Lerner and Loewe as My Fair Lady ).

Franz Lehár ( 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948 ) was an Austro-Hungarian composer.

Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary ( now Komárno, Slovakia ), the eldest son of Franz Lehar ( senior ) ( 1838 – 1888 ), an Austrian bandmaster in the Infantry Regiment No. 50 of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Christine Neubrandt ( 1849 – 1906 ), a Hungarian woman from a family of German descent.

Further, although Lehár was Roman Catholic, his wife, Sophie ( née Paschkis ) had been Jewish before her conversion to Catholicism upon marriage, and this was sufficient to generate hostility towards them personally and towards his work.

In 1938 Mrs. Lehár was given the status of " Ehrenarierin " ( honorary Aryan by marriage ).

* Recording Alfie Boe's Franz Lehár: Love was a Dream

* Franz Lehár ( 1870 – 1948 ), operetta composer, was born here

It was not a great success, and Lehár later revised it, under the new title of Das Land des Lächelns, which was first performed, at the Metropol Theatre, Berlin, on 10 October 1929.

In the future, Lehár composed a number of operettas with roles written specifically for Richard Tauber, including Paganini ( 1925 – though he was not available for the Vienna premiere, and first sang it in Berlin in 1926 ), Der Zarewitsch ( 1927 ), Friederike ( 1928 ), The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ), Schön ist die Welt ( 1930 ), and Giuditta ( 1934 ).

By this time he had also directed plays by Shakespeare, Strindberg, Camus, Chesterton, Anouilh, Tennessee Williams, Pirandello, Lehár, Molière and Ostrovsky.

Operettas were also at the peak of their popularity, with composers such as Johann Strauss III, Emmerich Kalman, and Franz Lehár.

* The Merry Widow ( 1943 ), an operetta with music by Franz Lehár

Some of his better-known works were written in conjunction with the composers Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, Paul Abraham, and Robert Stolz.

His talents were not fully realised during his lifetime as musical tastes had changed in the Silver Age with more popular composers such as Franz Lehár and Oscar Straus dominating the Viennese musical scene with their operettas, although his uncle, Johann Strauss II, supervised his development as a musician, a fact disputed by Eduard Strauss.

* Lehár: The Land of Smiles ( as Lisa ), with Martin Finke, Klaus Hirte, Siegfried Jerusalem, Brigitte Lindner, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and Münchner Rundfunkorchester, ( con.

* Lehár: The Merry Widow ( as Valencienne ), with Bavarian Radio Chorus and Munich Radio Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg conducting ( EMI )

There are several other monuments, e. g. of Franz Schubert, Franz Lehár, Robert Stolz and Hans Makart ; the Stadtpark is the park with the largest number of monuments and sculptures in Vienna.

His best known lyrics were " You are my heart's delight ", his English version of " Dein ist mein ganzes Herz ", from The Land of Smiles, composed by Franz Lehár ( and made famous by the popular tenor Richard Tauber ), and " Goodbye ", from his English adaptation of The White Horse Inn ( originally " Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier " from Robert Stolz's operetta Die lustigen Weiber von Wien, a song which later achieved great popularity as sung by Josef Locke ).

He often created large-scale works there, from American themes and Broadway, such as Stars and Stripes for the premiere performance, to drawing from European traditions and music, such as his 1977 Vienna Waltzes, a lavishly designed one-hour ballet choreographed to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár, and Richard Strauss.

Tauber first performed in an operetta by Franz Lehár in Linz and Berlin, both in 1920, in Zigeunerliebe.

Important artists were and are Schlaraffen ( for example, Franz Lehár, Gustl Bayrhammer, Peter Rosegger and many more ).

In 1947, Lehár conducted the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich in a series of 78-rpm recordings for English Decca ( released in the U. S. by London Records ) of overtures and waltzes from his operettas.

He subsequently wrote his best-known operettas, The Student Prince ( 1924 ), The Desert Song ( 1926 ) and The New Moon ( 1928 ), which are in a style similar to the Viennese operettas of Franz Lehár.

He went back to Vienna and began writing operettas, becoming a serious rival to Franz Lehár.

* " Frasquita Serenade " m. Franz Lehár

* Die Blaue Mazur ( The Blue Mazurka ) ( Music by Franz Lehár ), Vienna

** George Sponhaltz, John Coveney ( producers ), Julius Rudel ( conductor ), Beverly Sills, Alan Titus & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Lehár: The Merry Widow

** George Sponhaltz, John Coveney ( producers ), Julius Rudel ( conductor ), Beverly Sills, Alan Titus & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Lehár: The Merry Widow

In The Merry Widow ( 1934 ), director Ernst Lubitsch reunited Maurice Chevalier and MacDonald in a lavish version of the classic 1905 Franz Lehár operetta.

Lehár subsequently made changes for productions in London in 1907 ( two new numbers ), and Berlin in the 1920s, but the definitive version is basically that of the original production.

He has served as the Franz Lehár Composer in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh ( 2007 ), twice as Composer in Residence for the Princeton University Atelier ( 1998, 2005 ); as Artist in Residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ( 2000 – 2002 ); Sigma Chi-William P. Huffman Composer in Residence at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio ( 1999 – 2000 ); Artist in Residence at Baylor University, Waco, Texas ( 1998 – 1999 ); on the musical studies faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music ( 1996 – 1998 ); as an Associate Professor at Bard College ( 1988 – 1997 ); as a Visiting Professor at the City College of New York ( 1997, 1993 – 1994 ); and as a Lecturer in Music at New York University ( 1988 – 1990 ).

The Hungarian operetta first appeared in the 1860s, popularized by Ignác Bognár, Geza Allaga and Jeno Huber, followed by Elek Erkel and György Bánffy ; in the early 20th century, the Viennese style predominated in the work of Huszka, Pongrác KacsóhKacsóh, Buttykay, Jacobi, Kálmán and Lehár.

* 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer ( b. 1870 )

* April 30 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

In 1934, he starred in the first sound film of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow, one of his best-known films.

In his score Tiomkin quotes the famous Merry Widow Waltz of Franz Lehár, often in somewhat distorted forms, as a leitmotif for Uncle Charlie and his serial murders.

* " You Are My Heart's Delight " w. Harry Graham m. Franz Lehár Music 1923

* " The White Dove " w. Clifford Grey m. Franz Lehár

* " I Love You So " w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár

* "( You'll Find Me At ) Maxim's " w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár

* " Vilia " w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár

* December 28-Premiere of The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár.