- Profession: Composer, conductor.
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- Born: 29-04-1842 Vienna, Austria.
- Died: 31-12-1899 Baden (near Vienna), Austria. Aged 57.
- Buried: 27-10-1900 Central cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Grave 32A-35.
Carl (or Karl) Joseph Millöcker was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor. He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Vienna Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas. The first was Der tote Gast, an operetta in one act, premiered in 1865 with libretto by Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke. The international success of Der Bettelstudent enabled him to retire from conducting. However, he never achieved a comparable success afterward. Carl Millöcker died in Baden near Vienna on 31 December 1899, he was buried in an honorary grave in Vienna’s Central cemetery (group 32, A35).
