Ludwig Minkus [SEP] place of birth
of Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire. His father, Theodor Johann Minkus, was born in 1795 in Groß-Meseritsch, Moravia (today known as Velké Meziříčí near Brno, Moravia, in what is now the Czech Republic) and his mother, Maria Franziska Heimann was born in 1807 in Pest, Hungary. Minkus was of Jewish descent—his parents converted to Catholicism not long before their relocation to Vienna, and were married on the following day.
Minkus's father was a wholesale merchant of wine in
Ludwig Minkus. .
- "La Fille des Neiges". Music by Ludwig Minkus. .
- "Frisac, ou la Double Noce". Music arranged by Ludwig Minkus from the airs of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini and Gioacchino Rossini. .
- "Mlada". Music by Ludwig Minkus. .
- "La Fille du Danube" (revival, after F. Taglioni). Music by Adolphe Adam and Ludwig Minkus. .
- "Zoraïa, ou la Maure en Espagne"