Josef Dessauer
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Josef Dessauer (28 May 1798, Prague – 8 July 1876, Mödling, near Vienna), was a Czech-born composer who wrote many popular songs, and also some less successful operas.
[edit] Life
Dessauer was born into a wealthy Jewish family, and studied piano in Prague with Friedrich Dionys Weber and composition with Wenzel Johann Tomaschek. Dessauer began as a song composer, but later began composing operas, of which very few were performed.
In 1821 he settled in Vienna, from which he made many European tours.
[edit] Operas
- Lidwinna (1836)
- Ein Besuch in Saint-Cyr (1838)
- Paquita (1851)
- Domingo (1860)
- Oberon (which was never performed)
[edit] Songs
- "Verschwiegenheit"
- "Das Gebet"
- "Wie Glücklich"
- "Am Strande"
- "Ich Denke Dein"
- "Das Zerbrochene Ringlein"
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