Leo Ascher
More info on Leo Ascher
Country of Birth: | Austria |
Year of Birth: | 1880 |
Year of Death: | 1942 |
About the composer Leo Ascher
Leo Ascher (17 August 1880 - 25 February 1942) was a composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores.
Ascher was born in Vienna as Leonem Ascher. His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local umbrella manufacturer. Leo wrote his first composition, a waltz, at the age of 13 in 1893. He studied law at the University of Vienna where he received his doctorate in 1904. He also attended the Vienna Conservatory since 1898 and studied composition under Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt. He married Luise Frankl and they had one daughter, the writer Franzi Ascher-Nash (born in Vienna on 28 November 1910 and died in Millersville, Pennsylvania, on 1 September 1991).
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