Julius Hopp


Julius Hopp 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 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.
As the last of his theatre performances Hopp worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt until 1880. After he had become hard of hearing and unable to work at that time, the days of naked misery came for him. Hopp died at age 66 on 28 August 1885 in the in Vienna Alsergrund; he was buried on 31 August 1885 at Wiener Zentralfriedhof. The costs of the corpse burial were covered by , General Director of the two Viennese court theatres.

Work

  • Oesterreichs Flüsse, allegorical festival, UA 1854
  • Der Bräutigam in Hemdärmeln oder Vetter Fritz, Posse mit Gesang, UA 1854
  • Eine Vorstadt-G'schicht' , Life picture with singing and dancing, UA 1858
  • Ein Wiener Kind, Folk play with singing, UA 1858
  • Bruder und Brüderln, Character portrait with singing and dancing, UA 1858
  • Im Dorf, Rural character painting with song and dance, UA 1858
  • Ein gebrochenes Wort , play with singing and dancing, UA 1859
  • Zwei Mann von Heß, Original life picture with singing, UA 1860
  • Anna die schöne Kellnerin, Character portrait with singing and dancing, UA 1860
  • Fesche Geister von anno dazumal , popular work with singing, UA 1862
  • Margrethl/Margarethl und Fäustling..., parodistic burlesque with music and dance, UA 1862
  • Ein Deutschmeister, operetta, UA 1863
  • Auroras Geheimniß, Character painting with singing, dancing and ghostly apparitions, UA 1863
  • Eine leichte Person, Posse, UA 1863
  • Er nimmt auf seine Frau Geld auf, Singspiel mit Tanz, UA 1864
  • Herr Arthur Gareißl, Posse mit Gesang, UA 1864
  • Der halbe Mensch, Image of the people's life, UA 1864
  • Der Postillion von Langenlois libretto: Julius Bittner), burlesque Posse mit Gesang, UA 1864
  • Ein Wiener Findelkind, pictures from popular life mit Gesang, UA 1864
  • Die fesche Godel, sketches from the folk life with singing, UA 1865
  • Das Donauweibchen und der Ritter vom Kahlenberg, romantic-comic operetta, 1866
  • Auf einem Vulkan, Charakterbild mit Gesang, UA 1867
  • Der Freischütz, Posse mit Gesang und Tanz, UA 1867
  • Morilla, Operetta, UA 1868
  • Gräfin Pepi oder: Zwei bekannte Persönlichkeiten, Posse in one act, UA 1871
  • Hamlet, comic-parodic operetta, UA 1874