58 Facts About Victor Herbert

Victor Herbert conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904 and then founded the Victor Herbert Orchestra, which he conducted throughout the rest of his life.

Victor Herbert began to compose operettas in 1894, producing several successes, including The Serenade and The Fortune Teller.

Victor Herbert was baptized on July 11,1859, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Freiburg, Baden, Germany.

Victor Herbert's mother told Herbert that he had been born in Dublin, and he believed this all his life, listing Ireland as his birthplace on his 1902 American naturalization petition and on his 1914 American passport application.

Victor Herbert appears to have had no knowledge of his half-sister Angela Lucy Winifred Muspratt, an artist was born on 1851 and or his half-brother, Frederic Percy.

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Victor Herbert joined his mother in Stuttgart, Germany in 1867, a year after she had married a German physician, Carl Theodor Schmid of Langenargen.

Victor Herbert's younger half-brother, Wilhelm Marius Schmid, was born there in 1870.

Victor Herbert initially planned to pursue a career as a medical doctor.

Victor Herbert initially studied the piano, flute and piccolo but ultimately settled on the cello, beginning studies on that instrument with Bernhard Cossmann from age 15 to age 18.

Victor Herbert played in the orchestra of the wealthy Russian Baron Paul von Derwies for a few years and, in 1880, was a soloist for a year in the orchestra of Eduard Strauss in Vienna.

Victor Herbert joined the court orchestra in Stuttgart in 1881, where he remained for the next five years.

In 1883, Victor Herbert was selected by Johannes Brahms to play in a chamber orchestra for the celebration of the life of Franz Liszt, then 72 years old, near Zurich.

In 1885 Victor Herbert became romantically involved with Therese Forster, a soprano who had recently joined the court opera for which the court orchestra played.

Victor Herbert was engaged as the opera orchestra's principal cellist, and Forster was engaged to sing principal roles.

Seidl became an important mentor to Victor Herbert and took a particular interest in fostering Victor Herbert's skills as a conductor.

Victor Herbert earned praise from critics and audiences alike and was featured on the cover of the Musical Courier, a major music magazine of the day.

Victor Herbert quickly became prominent in New York City's musical scene, making his first American solo appearance on the cello in a performance of his own Suite for Cello and Orchestra, Op.

Victor Herbert has appeared as a cello soloist with major American orchestras into the 1910s.

Victor Herbert conducted the 80-piece orchestra in lighter works paired with more serious repertoire at summer concerts and festivals over the next few years.

In 1889, Herbert formed the Metropolitan Trio Club with Bendix and pianist Reinhold L Herman.

Victor Herbert played and conducted for the Worcester Music Festival, where he returned repeatedly through the 1890s.

In 1891, Victor Herbert premiered an ambitious cantata, The Captive, for solo voices, chorus and full orchestra.

Victor Herbert became director of the 22nd Regimental Band of the New York National Guard in 1894, succeeding its founder, Patrick Gilmore and Gilmore's unsuccessful immediate successor David Wallis Reeves.

Victor Herbert toured widely with the 22nd Regimental Band through 1900, performing both his own band compositions and works from the orchestral repertory that he transcribed for the band.

Victor Herbert continued to compose orchestral music, writing one of his finest works, the Cello Concerto No 2 in E minor, Op.

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In 1898, Victor Herbert became the principal conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, a position he held until 1904.

Victor Herbert conducted their programs of light orchestral music paired with more serious repertoire at summer resorts and on tours for most of his remaining years.

Victor Herbert's orchestra made many acoustical recordings for both Edison Records, from 1909 to 1911, and the Victor Talking Machine Company, from 1911 to 1923.

Victor Herbert led a group of composers and publishers in founding the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers on February 13,1914, becoming its vice-president and director until his death in 1924.

In 1917, Victor Herbert won a landmark lawsuit before the United States Supreme Court that gave composers, through ASCAP, a right to charge performance fees for the public performance of their music.

In 1894 Victor Herbert composed his first operetta, Prince Ananias, for a popular troupe known as The Bostonians.

The piece was well received, and Victor Herbert soon composed three more operettas for Broadway, The Wizard of the Nile, The Serenade, which enjoyed international success, and The Fortune Teller, starring Alice Nielsen.

Victor Herbert was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1908.

Victor Herbert searched for several years for a libretto that appealed to him, finally finding one by Joseph D Redding called Natoma that concerned a historical story set in California.

Victor Herbert composed the work from 1909 to 1910, and it premiered in Philadelphia on February 25,1911, with soprano Mary Garden in the title role and the young Irish tenor John McCormack in his American operatic debut.

Victor Herbert's other opera, Madeleine, was a much lighter work in one act.

Victor Herbert became progressively more involved with Irish-American organizations: in 1908 he joined the Friendly Sons of St Patrick, the oldest Irish association in New York, and in 1911 he became a member of the American Irish Historical Society.

In late 1916 Victor Herbert orchestrated "Soldiers of Erin", an English language version of what would later be adopted as the Irish national anthem; it was widely performed in the US from early 1917.

Victor Herbert was a contributor to the Ziegfeld Follies every year from 1917 to 1924.

Healthy man throughout his life, Victor Herbert died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 65 on May 26,1924, shortly after his final show, The Dream Girl, began its pre-Broadway run in New Haven, Connecticut.

Victor Herbert was survived by his wife and two children, Ella Victoria Herbert Bartlett and Clifford Victor Herbert.

Victor Herbert was entombed in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

Victor Herbert was portrayed by Paul Maxey in the 1946 film Till the Clouds Roll By.

Victor Herbert composed The Fall of a Nation, one of the first original orchestral scores for a full-length film.

Victor Herbert's shows were revived occasionally on Broadway until 1947, but not thereafter.

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Victor Herbert tailored his operettas to be performed by companies that performed these works.

Victor Herbert's background made him intimately familiar with Viennese operetta.

Indeed, the most characteristic Victor Herbert song was the waltz, and many of his waltzes became highly popular in spite of their high musical demands.

Victor Herbert is known for his "variation" songs, which consist either of a series of refrains displaying different styles, or of several variations of the same melody.

Victor Herbert often wrote his operettas with a particular singer in mind.

Victor Herbert would write shows for popular comedians of the day or noted producers.

Victor Herbert tended to use a slightly larger orchestra than Sullivan did in his comic operas, mostly through use of more types of percussion and occasionally by adding a harp.

Victor Herbert generally wrote his own orchestrations, which were admired by music critics and other composers.

For many years, the only recording available of a Victor Herbert show using his original orchestrations was one of Naughty Marietta, produced by the Smithsonian in 1981.

Victor Herbert uses elements of Spanish music in The Serenade, Italian music in Naughty Marietta, Austrian music in The Singing Girl and Eastern music in The Wizard of the Nile, The Idol's Eye, The Tattooed Man and other works set in places like Egypt and India.

However, Victor Herbert never completed that project, and the central two movements were not composed until 1902.

Victor Herbert published some of his dance music compositions under the pseudonym Noble MacClure.

On February 12,1924, Victor Herbert was one of the featured composers at New York's Aeolian Hall, in an evening entitled An Experiment in Modern Music that included the world premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by the Paul Whiteman orchestra.