Georg Jarno was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 composer

Composer

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, mainly of operetta

Operetta

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s.

Biography

After he finished his studies in Budapest

Budapest

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, he worked as Theaterkapellmeister

Kapellmeister

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 in in Bremen

Bremen

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, Gera

Gera

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, Halle

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt

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, Metz

Metz

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, Liegnitz

Legnica

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, Chemnitz

Chemnitz

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 and Magdeburg

Magdeburg

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, and also as opera

Opera

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 director in Bad Kissingen

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, before settling in Vienna

Vienna

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 as a freelance composer. Before 1903, Jarno's name was György Cohner. He is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław, Poland.

Career

Jarno's greates successes were Die Försterchristl

Die Försterchristl

Die Försterchristl is an operetta in three acts by Georg Jarno to a libretto by Bernhard Buchbinder. It premiered on 17 December 1907 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. Three years later, its English version had a run of 64 performances at Broadway's Herald Square Theatre in 1910/11 under...

(1907) and Das Musikantenmädel (1910). His operettas Das Farmermädchen and Jungfer Sonnenschein were well received, whereas Die Marine-Gustl, Mein Annerl, Der Goldfisch and Die Csikosbaroness could muster only passing interest. Much of the success of his works was due to the distinguished presentation of their title roles by his brother's (Joseph Jarno) wife, the highly popular actress and soubrette

Soubrette

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 Hansi Niese.

He loved to introduce historically well known persons into his operettas; Kaiser Joseph II

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

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 in Die Försterchristl, Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy

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 in Jungfer Sonnenschein, Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

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 in Das Musikantenmädel.

Before operettas, he wrote three operas: Die schwarze Kaschka (1895), Der Richter von Zalamea (1899) based on Calderon

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca , was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest...

's El alcalde de Zalamea, and Der zerbrochne Krug (1903) based on Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich von Kleist

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's play

The Broken Jug

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; none prevailed.

His main success, Die Försterchristl, had a run of 64 performances at Broadway

Broadway theatre

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's Herald Square

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 Theatre in 1910/11 under the title The Girl and the Kaiser.

Stage works

Title	Libretto	Premiere
Operas
Der schwarze Kaschka Opera in 4 acts	Viktor Blüthgen	12 May 1895	Breslau
Der Richter von Zalamea Opera in 4 acts	Viktor Blüthgen based on Calderón Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca , was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest...	1899	Breslau
Der zerbrochene Krug Comic opera Comic opera Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria...  in 3 acts revised as Johanniszauber	Heinrich Lee based on Kleist Heinrich von Kleist Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :... 's The Broken Jug The Broken Jug The Broken Jug is a comedy written by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist. Kleist first conceived the idea for the play in 1801, upon looking at a copper engraving in Heinrich Zschokke's house entitled "Le juge, ou la cruche cassée." In 1803, challenged over his ability to write comedy,...	1903 1911	Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... Hamburg
Operettas
Der Goldfisch	Richard Jäger	1907	Breslau
Die Försterchristl Die Försterchristl Die Försterchristl is an operetta in three acts by Georg Jarno to a libretto by Bernhard Buchbinder. It premiered on 17 December 1907 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. Three years later, its English version had a run of 64 performances at Broadway's Herald Square Theatre in 1910/11 under...	Bernhard Buchbinder	17 December 1907	Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt Theater in der Josefstadt The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna...
Das Musikantenmädel	Bernhard Buchbinder	12 February 1910	Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt
Die Marine-Gustl	Bernhard Buchbinder	1912	Vienna
Das Farmermädchen	Georg Okonkowski	22 March 1913	Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
Mein Annerl	Fritz Grünbaum Fritz Grünbaum Fritz Grünbaum was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and pop song writer, director, actor and master of ceremonies.... / Wilhelm Sterk	1916	Vienna
Jungfer Sonnenschein	Bernhard Buchbinder	1918	Hamburg
Die Csikosbaroneß	Fritz Grünbaum	1919	Hamburg

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