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career at the ministry and led to prison and public disgrace in the mid-1890s (although his prison sentence was later repealed).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. |
Birth and Death Data: Born 1842 (Lower Austria), Died August 17, 1898 (Baden bei Wien)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1897 - 1935
Roles Represented in DAHR: composer
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Berliner | 388 | 7-in. | 6/24/1897 | Die Nachtigall | Vroni Eidner | Soprano vocal solo | composer | |
Berliner | 4150 | 7-in. | 11/3/1897 | Don’t be cross | Simone Mantia | Euphonium solo | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1281 | 10-in. | 2/21/1902 | Don't be cross | Alexander Heindl | Cello solo | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1281 | 7-in. | 2/21/1902 | Don't be cross | Alexander Heindl | Cello solo | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1895 | 10-in. | 1/14/1903 | Don't be cross | Alexander Heindl | Cello solo | composer | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1895 | 7-in. | 1/14/1903 | Don't be cross | Alexander Heindl | Cello solo | composer | |
Victor | E-1949 | 8-in. | 3/22/1906 | Don't be cross | Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-1949 | 10-in. | 11/18/1904 | Don't be cross | Arthur Pryor's Orchestra ; Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | E-2470 | 8-in. | 11/21/1906 | Don't be cross | Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-2470 | 12-in. | 4/12/1905 | Don't be cross | Victor Dance Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-2470 | 10-in. | 4/12/1905 | Don't be cross | Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-2995 | 12-in. | 1/10/1906 | Don't be cross | Haydn Quartet ; Corinne Morgan | Female vocal solo and male vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | E-4957 | 8-in. | 11/20/1907 | Nightingale song | Corinne Morgan | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-4957 | 10-in. | 11/20/1907 | Nightingale song | Corinne Morgan | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-16335 | 12-in. | 8/6/1915 | Nightingale waltz | Conway's Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-17193 | 10-in. | 2/18/1916 | Nightingale song | Alma Gluck | Soprano vocal solo, with bird imitations and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-19497 | 10-in. | 4/18/1917 | O młynareczce z pewnej wśi | Marya Zajaczkowska [i.e., Marie Zayonchkowska] | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-22014 | 10-in. | 6/14/1918 | Jeszcze raz | Julja Pijanowska | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-27770 | 10-in. | 4/24/1923 | Sei nicht bös' | Harry Steier | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-27772 | 10-in. | 4/24/1923 | Nachtigallen Lied | Harry Steier | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-29210 | 10-in. | 12/20/1923 | Nightingale song | Della Baker | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-29210 | 10-in. | 6/30/1925 | Nightingale song | Della Baker | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-29596 | 10-in. | 3/11/1924 | Jeszcze raz | Tadeusz Wroński | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-36712 | 10-in. | 10/8/1926 | Don't be cross | Arthur Pryor's Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | BVE-37850 | 10-in. | 3/11/1927 | Nightingale song | Hulda Lashanska | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1928-12-24-02] | Not documented | 12/24/1928 | Reveries | Kedroff Quartet | Vocal quartet, unaccompanied | composer | |
Columbia | 45550 | 10-in. | 4/9/1915 | The nightingale song | Grace Kerns | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 46170 | 10-in. | 11/1/1915 | Nachtigallen Lied | Robert Leonhardt | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 49023 | 12-in. | 12/9/1916 | The nightingale's song | Sibyl Sanderson Fagan ; Lucy Gates | Soprano vocal solo, with bird calls and orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 5475 | 10-in. | between 1903 and 1908 | Canción del ruiseñor | Banda Española | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 11071 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | Canzone dell'usignuolo | Luigi Baldassare | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 84784 | 10-in. | approximately October 1918 | Don't be cross | Olga Bibor's Gypsy Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble ("Gypsy") | composer | |
Columbia | 86896 | 10-in. | approximately December 1920 | Nachtigall Lied | Robert Leonhardt | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | W80706 | 10-in. | 4/7/1927 | Nightingale song | Sibyl Sanderson Fagan Ensemble | Whistling, with violin, piano, and celeste | composer | |
Brunswick | 6762 | 10-in. | approximately Nov. 1921 | Nightingale song | Margaret McKee ; Marie Tiffany | Female vocal solo, with orchestra and bird imitations | composer | |
Brunswick | E28435 | 10-in. | 9/28/1928 | Nightingale song | Florence Easton ; Margaret McKee | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra and bird effects | composer | |
Brunswick | E16757-E16759 | 10-in. | 10/24/1925 | Nightingale song | Florence Easton | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | E25133-E25134 | 10-in. | 11/10/1927 | Nachtigall-lied | Karl Priester | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | XE25400-XE25401 | 12-in. | 12/3/1927 | Wie mein Ahn’l zwanzig Jahr | Peter Koska Schuhplattler Band | Band, with male vocal duet | composer | |
Edison | 3655 | 10-in. | 3/19/1915 | The nightingale song | Vincent Bach | Cornet solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 4001 | 10-in. | 7/22/1915 | Nightingale song | Beatrice Collin | Female vocal solo and mixed vocal quartet, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 4274 | 10-in. | 11/15/1915 | You remember love | Helen Clark | Soprano vocal solo and vocal ensemble, with orchestra | composer | |
Edison | 11588 | 10-in. | 3/18/1927 | Don't be cross | B. A. Rolfe | Trumpet solo | composer | |
Gramophone | 0M90 | 10-in. | 9/22/1931 | Valzer dell'usignolo | Rosetta Ferlito ; Pierette Fiore | Female-male vocal duet, with vocal chorus and instrumental ensemble | composer | |
Gramophone | 345L | 10-in. | 1902 | Sing again | N. G. Svetlanov | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Gramophone | 395L | 10-in. | 1902 | Czyliż było warto | Wiktorya Kawecka | Soprano vocal solo | composer | |
Gramophone | 610C | 7-in. | 1902 | Kwiat alpejski | K. Czosnowska | Female vocal solo | composer | |
Gramophone | 0RA625 | 10-in. | 5/21/1935 | Vögelhändler. Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr | Karl Reich's Aviary | Instrumental ensemble, with bird calls | composer | |
Gramophone | 0RA626 | 10-in. | 5/21/1935 | Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol | Karl Reich's Aviary | Instrumental ensemble, with bird calls | composer | |
Gramophone | 640C | 7-in. | 1902 | Ja pragnę aby mąż mój był | Wiktorya Kawecka ; Wincenty Proniewicz | Vocal duet (soprano and tenor) | composer | |
Gramophone | CLR3889 | 12-in. | 2/20/1928 | Der Vogelhändler : Potpourri | Ferdy Kauffman Salon Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | composer | |
Gramophone | CLR3890 | 12-in. | 2/20/1928 | Der Vogelhändler : Potpourri | Ferdy Kauffman Salon Orchestra | Instrumental ensemble | composer | |
Gramophone | BLR5020 | 10-in. | 2/12/1929 | Wie mein Ahnl zwanzig Jahr | Marcel Wittrisch | Male vocal solo, with instrumental ensemble | composer | |
Gramophone | 96014b | 10-in. | July 1905 | Cancion del Ruisenor | Braulio Rosete | Male vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia (U.K.) | WLB65 | 10-in. | April-May 1930 | Teon myn vader twintig jaar | Maurice Bastin ; Arnold Munnynck ; Orchestre du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Zeller, Carl," accessed November 25, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/116364.
Zeller, Carl. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 25, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/116364.
"Zeller, Carl." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 November 2024.
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