# Hugo Felix

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'''Hugo Victor Felix''' (19 November 1866 – 25 August 1934), born '''Felix Hugo Hayman''', was an Austrian [composer](/source/composer) of [operetta](/source/operetta)s and musicals born in [Budapest](/source/Budapest), [Austrian Empire](/source/Austrian_Empire).<ref name=Gänzl>[Gänzl, Kurt](/source/Kurt_G%C3%A4nzl). [https://kurtofgerolstein.blogspot.com/2018/12/felix-composer.html "Felix the composer"], ''Kurt of Gerolstein'', 19 December 2018</ref>

Felix's parents were and Hungarian–Austrian merchant, Mori[t]z Hayman (died 1896) and a Slovakian–Austrian mother, Eugenie Bachrich (died 1908). He was educated in [Vienna](/source/Vienna), graduated from [Vienna University](/source/Vienna_University) with a Doctorate in Science, but decided to pursue music instead of chemistry.<ref name=Gänzl/>

His first operetta was ''Die Kätzchen'', first produced in [Lemberg](/source/Lemberg) in 1890 and in Vienna in 1892. His other works included ''Husarenblut'' (1894, Vienna), ''Rhodope'' (1900, Vienna and [Berlin](/source/Berlin)), ''Madame Sherry'' (1902, Berlin – his biggest success) and ''[The Merveilleuses](/source/The_Merveilleuses)'' (1906, London). As music director of musical director of the [Carltheater](/source/Carltheater) in Vienna from the late 1890s to 1906, he imported several British works to Vienna, adapting both librettos and scores. He also contributed interpolated numbers to several musical comedies<ref name=Gänzl/>

Felix later went to the US where ''Madame Sherry'' met with success, in 1912, and composed several more shows. He remained in the US for the remainder of his life and died in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), California, aged sixty-seven.
thumb|upright|Slave, costume design for ''Schiavo di Corinto'' act 2 (undated)<ref>Note: In his extensive list of works by Felix, Gänzl does not list ''Schiavo di Corinto''. However, the title character of ''Rhodope'' (1900) is described as a slave.</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*D. Taylor & R. Kerr (eds.), ''The Biographical Dictionary of Musicians,'' New York (1940)

==External links==
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* [https://archive.org/details/rhodopeeineopere00feli/ Libretto of ''Rodomonte''], [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)
* {{IMSLP|author=Felix, Hugo}}

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