Max Josef Beer

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.

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.

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

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