Julius Hopp

Julius Hopp (18 May 1819 – 28 August 1885) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger and translator.

Life and career Born in Graz, Empire of Austria, the son of the actor and poet Friedrich Hopp, Lucius became known in the 1860s and 1870s through his adaptations of Jacques Offenbach's operettas, which were mainly performed in the Theater an der Wien, where Hopp was Kapellmeister. He composed parodies, antics and folk plays and appeared as a translator of French operas and operettas. In particular Hopp's sparkling adaptations of the operettas of Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) ensured the success of these works on Viennese soil and brought riches to theatre entrepreneurs whereby Hopp, due to his modesty, but not entirely through his own fault, did not enjoy that shower of gold.

Of Hopp's own works - despite their richness of melody - Das Donauweibchen and Morilla were only moderate successes. "Margaret and Mitten," on the other hand, had countless performances. The costs of the corpse burial were covered by (1822-1885), General Director of the two Viennese court theatres. (libretto: Anton Langer), Original life picture with singing, UA 1860 Anna die schöne Kellnerin (libretto: H. Riedl), Character portrait with singing and dancing, UA 1860 Fesche Geister von anno dazumal (Das Kind des Regiments) (libretto: O. F. Berg), popular work with singing, UA 1862 Margrethl/Margarethl und Fäustling ... (own libretto), parodistic burlesque with music and dance, UA 1862 Ein Deutschmeister (libretto: Karl Swiedack), operetta, UA 1863 Auroras Geheimniß (libretto: Julius Megerle), Character painting with singing, dancing and ghostly apparitions, UA 1863 Eine leichte Person (libretto: O. F. Berg), Posse, UA 1863 Er nimmt auf seine Frau Geld auf (Libretto: Franz Biringer), Singspiel mit Tanz, UA 1864 Herr Arthur Gareißl (libretto von A. Bahn), Posse mit Gesang, UA 1864 Der halbe Mensch (libretto: O. F. Berg), Image of the people's life, UA 1864 Der Postillion von Langenlois libretto: Julius Bittner), burlesque Posse mit Gesang, UA 1864 Ein Wiener Findelkind (libretto: Therese Megerle), pictures from popular life mit Gesang, UA 1864 Die fesche Godel (libretto: Ferdinand Heim), sketches from the folk life with singing, UA 1865 Das Donauweibchen und der Ritter vom Kahlenberg (libretto: J. Hopp and Paul Krone), romantic-comic operetta, 1866 Auf einem Vulkan (libretto: Alois Berla), Charakterbild mit Gesang, UA 1867 Der Freischütz (own libretto), Posse mit Gesang und Tanz, UA 1867 Morilla (own libretto), Operetta, UA 1868 Gräfin Pepi oder: Zwei bekannte Persönlichkeiten (libretto after Gräfin Guste by David Kalisch), Posse in one act, UA 1871 Hamlet (own libretto), comic-parodic operetta, UA 1874