Max Josef Beer (25 August 1851 ? 25 November 1908 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer.

Max Josef Beer studied with Felix Otto Dessoff and at a very young age received a commission from the Austrian government for the compositions Ariadne auf Naxos , Die Auferweckung des Lazarus , and a number of songs. ^[1]

On 15 February 1871, his opera seria in four acts, Elizabeth of Hungary , premiered at Milan's La Scala , starring Elisabetta Sternberg (soprano), Louis Auguste Arsandaux (tenor), Jean-Louis Lasalle (baritone) and Joseph-Victor Warot (bass).

Beer also wrote Der Streik der Schmiede , a verismo one-act opera, which unsuccessfully premiered at Augsburg, 1897. ^[2]

He died in Vienna at age 57 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Other compositions [ edit ]

• Funf Minnelieder for pianoforte
• Sechs Lieder fur eine Singstimme for voice with piano accompaniment
• Eichendorffiana , 9 piano pieces
• Ghazals , 6 piano pieces
• Lyrisches Intermezzo , four impressions for piano
• Sturm und Stille , 6 songs based on poems by C. Stogmann, Oskar von Redwitz , Heinrich Heine , Friedrich Ruckert
• Des Sangers Fluch , after Ludwig Uhland , for declamation with piano accompaniment
• Ein Fastnachtsmarchen , 8 Carnival pieces for piano
• Aus lichten Tagen , 4 clavier-poetry
• Abendfeier , three fantasy pieces for piano, four hands
• Liebesleben , for soprano, tenor, bass and piano
• Haidebilder aus Ungarn , 3 piano pieces for four hands
• Die schone Kellnerin von Bacharach und ihre Gaste [The beautiful waitress from Bacharach and their guests], five poems by N. Muller for a deeper voice with piano accompaniment
• Aus der Minnezeit , Op. 31, song cycle for women's choir and piano accompaniment
• Sweet Evening comes with a softer air , Op. 25, solo and chorus for male voices, texts by A. J. Foxwell

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• "Beer, Max Josef (1851?1908), Komponist und Verwaltungsbeamter" . Osterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon ab 1815 (online) (in German). Vol. 1. Austrian Academy of Sciences . 1957. p. 64.