Béla Kéler
Compositions for: Piano
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3 Hongroises, Op.13 Ungarische Idyllen, Op.134A
AbendgebethAbschied von der HeimathAch! Liebste, wenn ich bet dir bin, Op.103Aelpler's Lust, Op.96Aufmuterungs-Polka, Op.24B
Baráti fölhívásBártfai Emlék Csárdás, Op.31Bass-Arie im italienischen StilBokréta-Csárdás, Op.40Búcsú induló, Op.6C
Come palpita il mio cor, Op.61Courier-Galopp, Op.19D
Dallam négyes, Op.51Das Lied vom Grafen O'DonnellDebreczeni Emlék, Op.26Die Sprudler, Op.65E
Ein Ton aus deiner Kehle, Op.9Emlék sugarak, Op.50G
Gizella-jnduló, Op.21H
Hoffnungs-Sterne, Op.17Hongroise, Op.7Honi visszhang, Op.3HonvágyHurrah, hurrah, hurrah!, Op.12I
Ich bleibe DeinIllusionJ
Jubel-Marsch, Op.11K
Kimo Kaimo Galopp, Op.84Kismártoni emlék, Op.4Kosuth undulója, Op.5L
La Rose, Op.18L'Hirondelle, Op.16M
Masken-Galopp, Op.25MondliedMosonyi-Csárdás, Op.20O
Ohne Dich!P
Prinz Friedrich Carl Marsch, Op.13R
Rauenthaler BergliedReményemS
Schau Dir gern ins liebe AugeSchlummerlied, Op.10Soldatenleben, Op.62 No.1T
Tokaji cseppek, Op.54U
Ungarische TänzeV
Vilma-Csárdás, Op.2W
Wanderlied, Op.23Werböczy-Csárdás, Op.46Á
Árva lány haj a suvegem bokrétája, Op.38Ü
Üdvözlet Hazámhoz, Op.56Üstökös-Csárdás, Op.49Arrangements for: Piano
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Am schönen Rhein gedenk ich dein, Op.83B
Bártfai Emlék Csárdás, Op.31C
Conferenz Quadrille, Op.28D
Dallam négyes, Op.51Des Kriegers Heimkehr, Op.81Deutsches Gemüthsleben Walzer, Op.88Die Friedenstaube, Op.80Die letzten Glückstunden, Op.100Die Sprudler, Op.65E
Ehret die Frauen, Op.113Eine Liebesgabe, Op.92Entre Calais et Douvres, Op.105F
Französische Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.111G
Grand Galop infernale, Op.60L
La Berlinoise, Op.15Ladies Polka, Op.29Litfaß Annoncier-Polka, Op.14Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.73M
Mazur przemyślski, Op.97Mazzuchelli Marsch, Op.22Mercur Galopp, Op.86O
Ouverture romantique, Op.75R
Rákóczy-Ouverture, Op.76Rösige Träume Walzer, Op.72S
Schmetterlingsjagd, Op.133Sempre crescendo Galopp, Op.119Serenata Veneziana, Op.98Souvenir de Wiesbaden, Op.68T
Tempelweihe, Op.95U
Ungarische Concert-Ouverture, Op.136Ungarische Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.108W
Wiedersehen Polka, Op.41Ö
Österreich-Ungarn Walzer, Op.91Parts for: Piano
Friedens Palmen, Op.27WikipediaBéla Kéler was a Hungarian composer of romantic music period and orchestral conductor. Béla Kéler was born as Albert Paul Keler (Adalbert Paul von Keler). He is also known in Hungarian as Kéler Béla. He was born on 13 February 1820 in City of Bártfa, Sáros County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (present-day Bardejov, Slovakia), and died on 20 November 1882 in Wiesbaden, German Empire. He was active in Hungary, Austria and Germany.
Béla Kéler was born in 1820 in Bártfa (German: Bartfeld, Slovak: present-day Bardejov), Kingdom of Hungary as Albert Paul Keler, but German and Austrian sources also give Adalbert Paul von Keler. He descended from an ethnic German family on his father's side, but was ethnic Magyar on his mother's side.
His father Stefan Keler (1781–1849) was a principal magistrate of Bártfa, from an old Bártfa burgher's family. His mother Anna Bóth (1793–1848) was from the Hungarian Both de Botfalva noble family. They raised 13 children. Albert's siblings were Frederika, Stefan, Emilia, Antonia, Matilda, Augusta, Apollonia, Ferdinand, Viktor, Josefina, and Amalia. The household was German speaking; the majority of residents of Bártfa that time were Carpathian Germans.
As a little boy he studied violin with Franz Schiffer in Bártfa. He began his school education in 1834 in the Evangelical Lyceum of Lőcse (today Levoca, Slovakia). After that he studied in Evangelical College of Eperjes (today Prešov, Slovakia), and later briefly studied law and philosophy in Debrecen. Soon he left and picked up studies again in Eperjes.
After dropping out of law school, he worked on a farm where he read a textbook by
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, the Austrian baroque composer. He then started practicing the violin. By the time he moved to Vienna, he was good enough to play in the orchestra of the Theater an der Wien. While holding this position, he studied with
Simon Sechter. He became leader of the
Gungl Band in Berlin in 1854, and the next year succeeded Augustin Lanner in Vienna. From 1856 to 1863, he was Kapellmeister of an infantry regiment in the Vienna garrison. In 1867, he joined the Kur Orchestra in Wiesbaden, where he remained until 1873. In the 1870s, he toured all over Europe.
He lived and worked in Eperjes, where he led a students' orchestra. In 1845, he moved to Vienna, Austria and in 1863 to Wiesbaden, Germany, where he lies buried. In his testament he donated all of his works to the city of Bártfa, where he was born.
His best known piece Erinnerung an Bartfeld is written on the melodies of typical local folk songs of Sáros County. This piece was (partly) mistakenly rewritten by
Johannes Brahms as Hungarian Dance No. 5 because Brahms thought it was a folk song, not an original work. This was because
Anton Bruckner copied the instrumentation and form (but not the harmony) of Kéler's Mazzuchelli-Marsch (also called Apollo-Marsch) exactly for his own
March in E-flat major. (The Apollo Marsch was later mistaken for a work of Bruckner's).
Kéler was very popular as a composer of orchestral and dance music, and was looked upon as one of the best of writers of violin solos. His overtures and compositions for small orchestra were long popular in the United States and England.
Béla Kéler donated all of his works to the city of Bártfa. After the founding of the Šariš Museum in Bártfa in 1903 this collection became part of the permanent exhibition of the museum.
Today, Béla Kéler has his own exhibition screen near the entrance in the City Hall Museum in Bardejov, which is a part of the Šariš Museum. His personal correspondence, manuscripts and printed works, portraits and his memorial tablet are kept and displayed there.