Hugo Felix
Hugo Felix , born Felix Hugo Hayman, was an Austrian composer of operettas and musicals born in Budapest, Hungary.
Felix's parents were and Hungarian–Austrian merchant, Moriz Hayman and a Slovakian–Austrian mother, Eugenie Bachrich. He was educated in Vienna, graduated from Vienna University with a Doctorate in Science, but decided to pursue music instead of chemistry.
His first operetta was Die Kätzchen, first produced in Lemberg in 1890 and in Vienna in 1892. His other works included Husarenblut, Rhodope, Madame Sherry and The Merveilleuses. As music director of musical director of the 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
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, California, aged sixty-seven.
