Franz Lehár

Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).

Biography

Lehár was born in the northern part of Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Komárno, Slovakia), the eldest son of Franz Lehár (senior) (1838–1898), 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. He grew up speaking only Hungarian until the age of 12. Later he put a diacritic above the "a" of his father's name "Lehar" to indicate the vowel in the corresponding Hungarian orthography.

Franz Lehár (film)

Franz Lehár is a 1923 Austrian silent biographical film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and Hans Torre. It portrays the life of the composer Franz Lehár. Lehár was supportive of the film and wrote a score to accompany it based on his own operettas.

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