Carl Binder (1816-1860)
- Ouverture zur Jacques Offenbach 'Orpheus in der Unterwelt'
Performers: Angèlе Dubеau (violin); La Piеtà
Painting: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) - Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld (1861)
Further info: Infernal Violins
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Austrian composer. Nothing is known about his early years. From 1839 to
1847 he was Kapellmeister at Viennese suburban theaters writing a large
number of scores for Possen (farces) and Singspiele, most of which did
no more than satisfy the expectations of the audiences of his day. He
later did achieve a few major successes with the scores to seven of
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy’s plays written between 1851 and 1859, and in his
instrumentation of Offenbach’s operettas which reached Vienna in the
late 1850s. He was elected an honorary member of the Dom-Musik-Verein in
Salzburg on 10 April 1854. Of approximately 80 works written by Binder
between 1849 and 1860, those most frequently performed at the
Carltheater (formerly the Theater in der Leopoldstadt) included the
scores to Nestroy’s Kampl (1852) and Umsonst (1857), Kaiser’s Verrechnet
(1851) and the ‘Charakterbild’ Die Frau Wirtin (1856), and Kalisch’s
Ein gebildeter Hausknecht (1858). His best-known work though was the
overture on various motifs of the Jacques Offenbach operetta 'Orpheus in
der Unterwelt', stage work originally composed by Offenbach with a
short instrumental prelude but with no overture itself. The overture was
arranged by Carl Binder for the first operetta performance in Vienna
(1860) achiving a great success. His son Karl Binder (1843-1870) was a
promising musician ended by an early death.
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