He was the leading composer of operettas in the 20th century.
He was named for the famous operetta composer, his father's cousin.
He was a composer of operettas, cantatas, piano and organ music.
But like a good operetta composer, he knew how to write pleasant melodies that make their best impression when they sound unpretentious.
Like many other composers of operettas, Paul Abraham started with works of a serious nature.
That last film has a score by Franz Lehar, the operetta composer.
The Prague-born composer of sentimental operettas popular on Broadway in the 1910's and 20's?
Early in his career, Tietjens's ambition was to establish himself as a successful composer of comic operas and operettas.
He has also composed and written text for numerous songs, following in the steps of both his father and his grandfather, who were operetta composers.
Schubert emerges as an operetta composer of genius, Lehar's truest progenitor.