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{{Short description|French music composer (born 1841)}}
[[File:Victor Nessler by August Weger.jpg|thumb|Victor Nessler]]
'''Viktor''' (or '''Victor''') '''Ernst Nessler''' (28 January 1841 – 28 May 1890) was an [[Alsace|Alsatian]] [[composer]] who worked mainly in [[Leipzig]].

Nessler was born at [[Baldenheim]] near [[Sélestat]], [[Alsace]].  At [[Strasbourg]] he began his university career with the study of [[theology]], but he concluded it with the production of a light [[opera]] entitled ''Fleurette'' (1864). To complete his knowledge of music Nessler went to [[Leipzig]] to study with [[Moritz Hauptmann]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Neszler, Victor|volume=19|page=412}}</ref> In 1870, he was appointed chorus master and later conductor of the Caroltheater, Leipzig.<ref>"Nessler, Viktor E(rnst)" (2003). In ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music''. (Retrieved April 01, 2008), <http://www.credoreference.com>./</ref><ref>"Nessler, Victor"  ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera''. John Warrack and Ewan West. Oxford University Press, 1996. ''Oxford Reference Online''. Oxford University Press. (Retrieved April 01, 2008), <http://www.oxfordreference.com>./</ref>

His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably ''[[Der Rattenfänger von Hameln]]'' (''[[The Pied Piper of Hamelin]]'') (1879) and ''[[Der Trompeter von Säkkingen]]'' (1884), based on the famous poem by [[Joseph Viktor von Scheffel]], were very popular in the 19th century. The great conductor [[Artur Nikisch]] composed an orchestral arrangement of material from ''Der Trompeter von Säkkingen''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}} Besides a number of other operas, Nessler wrote many songs and choral works; but it is with the ''Trompeter von Säkkingen'' that his name is most closely associated. In 1895 a monument to him by the sculptor [[Alfred Marzolff]] was erected in Strasbourg, the place of his death.<ref name="EB1911" />

==Works==
* ''Fleurette'' (1864 [[Strasbourg]])
* ''Dornröschens Brautfahrt'' (1867 [[Leipzig]])
* ''Die Hochzeitsreise'' (1867 Leipzig)
* ''Am Alexandertag'' (1869 Leipzig)
* ''Nachtwächter und Student'' (1871 Leipzig)
* ''Irmingard'' (1876 Leipzig)
* ''[[Der Rattenfänger von Hameln]]'' (1879 Leipzig)
* ''Der wilde Jäger'' (1881 Leipzig)
* ''[[Der Trompeter von Säckingen]]'' (1884 Leipzig)
* ''Otto der Schütz '' (1886 Leipzig)
* ''Die Rose von Strassburg'' (1890 [[Munich]])

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Viktor Nessler}}
* {{German National Library portal|116941898}}
* {{IMSLP|id=Nessler, Viktor Ernst}}

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