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Franz Lehár
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Franz Lehar stands in formal attire with a white bow tie and medals, resting one arm on a decorative banister in an ornately decorated interior. Franz Lehar sits at a piano, turning to look at the camera, in an undated black and white photograph with a rocky background. Franz Lehar sits at a piano in a richly decorated room, with sheet music and books stacked nearby and framed portraits on the patterned wall behind him. Lily Elsie as Sonia and Joseph Coyne as Prince Danilo sit back-to-back on chairs in elegant period costumes in a scene from the 1907 operetta The Merry Widow. Bad Ischl

Franz Lehár: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Oct 20, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 26, 2026
First paragraph modernization. Mar 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Music and the Holocaust - Biography of Franz Leh�r. Jun 28, 2019
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Biography of Franz Leh�r. Sep 30, 2014
Added photograph. May 27, 2011
Added two photographs of Franz Lehár, one showing him in formal attire, the other showing him seated at the piano. Feb 09, 2010
Added new Web site: Naxos Classical Music - Biography of Franz Lehar. May 06, 2009
Media added. May 11, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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