Georg Jarno (3 June 1868 – 24 May 1920) was a Hungarian composer, mainly of operettas.
Biography Jarno was born in Buda. After he finished his studies in Budapest, he worked as Theaterkapellmeister in Bremen, Gera, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Metz, Liegnitz, Chemnitz and Magdeburg, and also as opera director in Bad Kissingen, before settling in Vienna as a freelance composer. Before 1903, Jarno's name was György Cohner. He died in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), and is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery (field 17), found 16 June 2026 by ASF volunteers.
Career Jarno's greatest successes were Die Försterchristl (1907) and Das Musikantenmädel (1910). His operettas Das Farmermädchen and Jungfer Sonnenschein were well received, whereas Die Marine-Gustl, Mein Annerl, Der Goldfisch and Die Csikosbaroness could muster only passing interest. Much of the success of his works was due to the distinguished presentation of their title roles by his brother's (Joseph Jarno) wife, the highly popular actress and soubrette Hansi Niese.
He loved to introduce historically well known persons into his operettas; Kaiser Joseph II in Die Försterchristl, Prince Eugene of Savoy in Jungfer Sonnenschein, Joseph Haydn in Das Musikantenmädel.
Before operettas, he wrote three operas: Die schwarze Kaschka (1895), Der Richter von Zalamea (1899) based on Calderon's El alcalde de Zalamea, and Der zerbrochne Krug (1903) based on Heinrich von Kleist's play; none prevailed.
His main success, Die Försterchristl, had a run of 64 performances at Broadway's Herald Square Theatre in 1910/11 under the title The Girl and the Kaiser.
Stage works TitleLibrettoPremiereOperasDer schwarze KaschkaOpera in 4 actsViktor Blüthgen12 May 1895BreslauDer Richter von ZalameaOpera in 4 actsViktor Blüthgenbased on Calderón1899BreslauDer zerbrochene KrugComic opera in 3 actsrevised as JohanniszauberHeinrich Leebased on Kleist's The Broken Jug19031911HamburgHamburgOperettasDer GoldfischRichard Jäger1907BreslauDie FörsterchristlBernhard Buchbinder17 December 1907ViennaTheater in der JosefstadtDas MusikantenmädelBernhard Buchbinder12 February 1910ViennaTheater in der JosefstadtDie Marine-GustlBernhard Buchbinder1912ViennaDas FarmermädchenGeorg Okonkowski22 March 1913BerlinMein AnnerlFritz Grünbaum/1916ViennaJungfer SonnenscheinBernhard Buchbinder1918HamburgDie CsikosbaroneßFritz Grünbaum1919Hamburg
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References
Reclams Operettenführer, Anton Würz (ed.), Stuttgart 1962
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