Viktor Nessler

Viktor (or Victor) Ernst Nessler (28 January 1841 – 28 May 1890) was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig.

At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled Fleurette (1864).

To complete his knowledge of music Nessler went to Leipzig to study with Moritz Hauptmann.

The great conductor Artur Nikisch composed an orchestral arrangement of material from Der Trompeter von Säkkingen.

[citation needed] Besides a number of other operas, Nessler wrote many songs and choral works; but it is with the Trompeter von Säkkingen that his name is most closely associated.