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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Irish conductors (music), Irish opera singers, Victor Herbert, John S. Beckett, Michael Kelly, Harry Plunket Greene, Frank Patterson, John McCormack, Margaret Keys, John O'Brien, Brian Boydell, Joseph O'Mara, Bernadette Greevy, Barton McGuckin, Hugh Talbot, Albert Rosen, Frank McNamara, David Wallace, P. W. Halton, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Catherine Hayes, Brendan Townsend, Seoirse Bodley, Garth Knox, Matthew Dubourg, Cora Venus Lunny, Mairead Buicke, Ann Murray, Norma Burrowes, David Brophy, Niall Morris, Dermot Troy, Frank Ryan, Noel Kelehan, Allan James Foley, J. Augustine Wade, Robert Sands, Margaret Burke Sheridan, Virginia Kerr, Karl Scully, Maire Mannion, Adrian Petcu. Excerpt: Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 - May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the tin pan alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music. In the early 1880s, Herbert began a career as a cellist in Vienna, Austria, and Stuttgart, Germany, during which he began to compose orchestral music. Herbert and his opera singer wife, Therese Forster, moved to the U.S. in 1886 when both were engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. In the U.S., Herbert continued...
