Meyer Lutz  

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Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (19 May 1829 – 31 January 1903) was a German-born British composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and burlesques of well-known works.

Emigrating to the UK at the age of 19, Lutz started as an organist and soon became a theatrical conductor in London. After serving from 1850 to 1855 as music director of the Surrey Theatre, Lutz conducted touring opera companies and composed some serious music and music for the Christy Minstrels. In 1869, he was engaged as the music director of the Gaiety Theatre, London, arranging and later composing a series of popular burlesques over the next 25 years. Lutz continued to compose songs into the 20th century.

Selected works

• The Charmed Harp (1852) (Surrey Theatre)
• Faust and Marguerite (1855) (Surrey Theatre)
• Blonde or Brunette (1862) (Royalty Theatre)
• Felix, or The Festival of the Roses (1865) (Royalty Theatre)
• Zaida, or, The Pearl of Granada (1868) (Liverpool)
• The Miller of Milburg (1872) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Legend of the Lys (1873) (cantata)
• The Bohemian G-yurl and the Unapproachable Pole (1877) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Robbing Roy (1879) (Gaiety Theatre)
• The Forty Thieves (1880) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed (1883) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Little Jack Sheppard (1885) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Miss Esmeralda, or The Maid and the Monkey (1887) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (1887) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Faust up to Date (1888) (Gaiety Theatre)
• Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué (1889) (in Birmingham, then at the Gaiety)
• Carmen up to Data (1890) (in Liverpool, then at the Gaiety)
• Cinder Ellen up too Late (1893) (Gaiety Theatre)
• A Model Trilby, or A Day or Two after du Maurier (1895) (Opera Comique)