Released album “Violin Concertos”.
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Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.
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culture · Austro-Hungarian composer (1870–1948) · composer · conductor · author · operetta composer · also Franz Lehár, Franz Lehar, Lehár
Born 30 April 1870 · Died 24 October 1948 · Q191917
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Released album “Wiener Frauen”.
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Dein ist mein ganzes Herz: The Most Beautiful Melodies by Franz Lehar (Live)”.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Verklärte Nacht”.
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Friederike”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Giuditta (Höhepunkte)”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “The Merry Widow: The Original Soundtrack Recording”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Salon de Vienne”.
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Lehar: Die lustige Witwe & Strauss: Waltzes”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Die blaue Mazur”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Plaisir des Operettes”.
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Released album “Zigeunerliebe”.
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2004· 3 entries
SME: Košice stages Lehár's Merry Widow
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Released album “Die lustige Witwe / Der Graf von Luxemburg / Paganini / Der Zarewitsch / Friederike / Das Land des Lächelns / Giuditta”.
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Released album “Lehár: Romance and Music (The Classic Composers – Modern 15)”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Das Land des Lächelns”.
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Tatjana”.
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Released album “Lehár Conducts Lehár: Waltzes and Overtures”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Das Land des Lächelns / Die lustige Witwe”.
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Released album “Fata Morgana: Suites / Dances / Intermezzi”.
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Released album “Marilyn Hill Smith sings Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán”.
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Released album “The Best Operette Festival”.
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Paganini”.
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Released album “A Viennese Evening at the Proms”.
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Released album “Piano Sonatas”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “Das Land des Lächelns / Der Zarewitsch / Paganini”.
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Released album “A Tribute to Operetta”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Die lustige Witwe: Highlights”.
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Released album “Die lustige Witwe (Highlights)”.
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1997· 5 entries
Released album “Symphonic Works”.
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Released album “Im Herzen der Klassik 50: Johann Strauß - Die Fledermaus / Franz Lehár - Die lustige Witwe”.
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Released album “Favorites from the Classics: The Waltz Kings: Strauss, Kreisler & Lehár”.
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Released album “Giuditta (Sung in English)”.
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Released album “Operette Festival”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “The Czarevitch (Sung in English)”.
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Released album “The Land of Smiles”.
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Released album “The Greatest Operettas”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Paganini. Operette in 3 Akten”.
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Released album “»Komm in die Gondel«: Peter Anders singt beliebte Operettenmelodien von Lehár · Zeller · Strauß · Künnecke · Heuberger · Ziehrer”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Lehár Operetta : The Land of Smiles / Frederica / Paganini / The Merry Widow”.
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Released album “Giuditta”.
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Released album “Der Graf von Luxemburg”.
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Released album “Im weissen Rössl / Die lustige Witwe”.
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1993· 5 entries
Released album “La Belle Époque”.
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Released album “Die großen Meister der klassischen Musik - Lehár”.
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Released album “Grosse Komponisten und ihre Musik 65: Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Franz Lehár: Die lustige Witwe”.
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Released album “Le Pays du sourire (Extraits)”.
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Released album “Franz Lehár conducts: Die lustige Witwe / Zigeunerliebe / Eva / Paganini / Der Zarewitsch / Friederike / Das Land des Lächelns / Schön ist die Welt / Giuditta (extracts)”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Die lustige Witwe / Suppé: Ouvertüren”.
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Released album “Die lustige Witwe / Die Czárdásfürstin”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “The Merry Widow: Highlights”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Sternstunden der Operette”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Jussi Björling”.
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1988· 4 entries
Released album “The Merry Widow (Highlights)”.
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Released album “Operettenfestival: Classic Collection, Volume 3”.
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Released album “Famous Waltzes”.
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Released album “Der Zarewitsch”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Die lustige Witwe (Großer Querschnitt)”.
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Released album “Gold & Silver”.
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1985· 2 entries
Released album “The Count of Luxembourg: Highlights in English”.
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Released album “The Count of Luxembourg”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Willi Boskovsky Conducts Lehár Waltzes”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “The Merry Widow - Highlights”.
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1969· 1 entry
On Decca eclipse ECM 2012 and reprocessed stereo on ECS 2012) and CD
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “Die lustige Witwe”.
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “The Merry Widow”.
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1948· 2 entries
Died 1948-10-24.
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In Bad Ischl, near Salzburg, and was buried there
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1947· 1 entry
Lehár conducted the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in a series of 78-rpm recordings for English Decca (released in the U
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1940· 2 entries
Won Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1940).
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Hitler awarded him the Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft
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1938· 1 entry
Lehár had given him as a special gift a red Morocco leather volume in commemoration of the 50th performance of The Merry Widow
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1929· 1 entry
And 1934, Lehár had conducted for Odeon Records The Land of Smiles and Giuditta, starring Richard Tauber, Vera Schwarz and Jarmila Novotná
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1920· 1 entry
And then Frasquita in 1922, in which Lehár once again found a suitable post-war style
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1908· 1 entry
Deutsche Grammophon, the German branch of The Gramophone Company Ltd (His Master's Voice) issued twelve extracts (mostly ensembles) from Lehár's latest operetta, Der Mann mit den drei Frauen, with the composer conducting
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1902· 1 entry
Became conductor at the historic Vienna Theater an der Wien, where his operetta Wiener Frauen was performed in November of that year
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1888· 2 entries
Studied at Prague Conservatory (1888).
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Joined his father's band in Vienna, as assistant bandmaster
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1870· 1 entry
Born 1870-04-30.
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