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Place of Birth: Lower Austria, Austria
About Carl Zeller
- Carl Adam Johann Nepomuk Zeller (19 June 1842 – 17 August 1898) was an Austrian composer of operettas. Zeller was born in Sankt Peter in der Au, the only child of physician Johann Zeller and Maria Anna Elizabeth.
- Zeller's father died before his first birthday, after which his mother remarried Ernest Friedinger.
- In 1875, Zeller married Anna Maria Schwetz. Zeller had a fine soprano voice, and sang in the Vienna Boys' Choir before studying and composition in the University of Vienna.
- He worked as a civil servant at the Imperial Ministry of Education while composing choral works and a number of operettas, the best-known of which is Der Vogelhändler.
- All of his librettos were written (or co-written) by Moritz West, often together with Ludwig Held. Legal troubles, including a perjury conviction, ended Zeller's career at the ministry and led to prison and public disgrace in the mid-1890s (although his prison sentence was later repealed).
- After an injury in 1895 from falling on the ice, he spent his last years physically and then mentally ill.
- Zeller died of pneumonia in Baden bei Wien at the age of 56.
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