Alfred Zamara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Zamara

Austrian composer

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1863

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1940

Profession: composer

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Alfred Zamara (1863–1940) was an Austrian composer and harpist. He was the son of Antonio Zamara (1823 or 1829 or 1831 or 1835 –1901) and was born in Vienna.
Like his father, became professor of harp at the Vienna Conservatory and solo harpist at the Vienna Hofoper.
He and his sister, Theresa, were both taught the harp by their father.
Alfred Zamara wrote many salon pieces, made transcriptions for the harp, and edited François Joseph Naderman's Sieben Etuden; among his pupils was Joseph E.
Schuëcker (1886-1938) from 1900-01.
( Antonio Zamara had taught Joseph's father and uncle, Edmund Schuëcker (1860-1911) from 1871–77 and Heinrich Schuëcker (1867-1913) from 1878–84) The Zamaras were a Viennese family of harpists active in the musical life of Croatia in the 19th century.
His father, Antonio Zamara, had been born in Italy but the family moved to Austria.
His sister, Theresa, was a member of the Budapest Opera and later taught harp at the Vienna Conservatory.
He collaborated with Viktor Léon to produce the opera Der Doppelgänger which was produced at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich in September 1886.



Alternative names	Karl Pietzner, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Pietzner
Description	Austrian photographer
Date of birth/death	9 April 1853	24 November 1927
Location of birth/death	Wriezen	Vienna
Work period	(at least) 1877–1924
Work location	Wriezen, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Schönau, Karlovy Vary, Brno, Ústí nad Labem, Cheb, Olomouc, Františkovy Lázne, Most, Ostrava, Budapest, Opava, Constantinople (circa June 1915 date QS:P,+1915-06-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902 )
Authority control	: Q18507986 VIAF: 121678204 ISNI: 0000 0003 5570 2029 GND: 141426497 NKC: mzk2010579771 NLP: A21919008