Georg Jarno
# Georg Jarno

Georg Jarno (3 June 1868, in Buda – 25 May 1920, in Breslau) was a Hungarian composer, mainly of operettas.

## Biography

After he finished his studies in Budapest, he worked as Theaterkapellmeister in Bremen, Gera, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Metz, Liegnitz, Chemnitz and Magdeburg, and also as opera director in Bad Kissingen, before settling in Vienna as a freelance composer. Before 1903, Jarno's name was György Cohner. He is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław, Poland.

## Career

Jarno's greatest successes were Die Försterchristl (1907) and Das Musikantenmädel (1910). His operettas Das Farmermädchen and Jungfer Sonnenschein were well received, whereas Die Marine-Gustl, Mein Annerl, Der Goldfisch and Die Csikosbaroness could muster only passing interest. Much of the success of his works was due to the distinguished presentation of their title roles by his brother's (Joseph Jarno) wife, the highly popular actress and soubrette Hansi Niese.

He loved to introduce historically well known persons into his operettas; Kaiser Joseph II in Die Försterchristl, Prince Eugene of Savoy in Jungfer Sonnenschein, Joseph Haydn in Das Musikantenmädel.

Before operettas, he wrote three operas: Die schwarze Kaschka (1895), Der Richter von Zalamea (1899) based on Calderon's El alcalde de Zalamea, and Der zerbrochne Krug (1903) based on Heinrich von Kleist's play; none prevailed.

His main success, Die Försterchristl, had a run of 64 performances at Broadway's Herald Square Theatre in 1910/11 under the title The Girl and the Kaiser.

## Stage works

| Title | Libretto | Premiere | Premiere |
| - | - | - | - |
| Operas ||||
| Der schwarze Kaschka Opera in 4 acts | Viktor Blüthgen | 12 May 1895 | Breslau |
| Der Richter von Zalamea Opera in 4 acts | Viktor Blüthgen based on Calderón | 1899 | Breslau |
| Der zerbrochene Krug Comic opera in 3 acts revised as Johanniszauber | Heinrich Lee based on Kleist's The Broken Jug | 1903 1911 | Hamburg Hamburg |
| Operettas ||||
| Der Goldfisch | Richard Jäger | 1907 | Breslau |
| Die Försterchristl | Bernhard Buchbinder | 17 December 1907 | Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt |
| Das Musikantenmädel | Bernhard Buchbinder | 12 February 1910 | Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt |
| Die Marine-Gustl | Bernhard Buchbinder | 1912 | Vienna |
| Das Farmermädchen | Georg Okonkowski | 22 March 1913 | Berlin |
| Mein Annerl | Fritz Grünbaum/ Wilhelm Sterk [de] | 1916 | Vienna |
| Jungfer Sonnenschein | Bernhard Buchbinder | 1918 | Hamburg |
| Die Csikosbaroneß | Fritz Grünbaum | 1919 | Hamburg |
