Composers

Béla Kéler

Orchestra
Piano
Voice
Bass
Tenor
Men's chorus
Violin
Alto
Baritone
Soprano
Dance
Waltz
Song
Polka
Overture
Czardas
Marche
Galop
Piece
Lied
by popularity

#

3 Hongroises, Op.13 Ungarische Idyllen, Op.134

A

AbendgebethAbschied von der HeimathAch! Liebste, wenn ich bet dir bin, Op.103Aelpler's Lust, Op.96Am schönen Rhein gedenk ich dein, Op.83An der Themse Strand, Op.104Aufmuterungs-Polka, Op.24

B

Baráti fölhívásBártfai Emlék Csárdás, Op.31Bass-Arie im italienischen StilBerliner Kinder, Op.77Bokréta-Csárdás, Op.40Búcsú induló, Op.6

C

Come palpita il mio cor, Op.61Conferenz Quadrille, Op.28Courier-Galopp, Op.19Csokonay-Ouverture, Op.139

D

Dallam négyes, Op.51Das Lied vom Grafen O'DonnellDebreczeni Emlék, Op.26Des Kriegers Heimkehr, Op.81Deutsches Gemüthsleben Walzer, Op.88Diana Galop, Op.107Die Friedenstaube, Op.80Die Glückgöttin, Op.99Die KarpathenDie letzten Glückstunden, Op.100Die schöne Reiterin, Op.102Die Sprudler, Op.65

E

Ehret die Frauen, Op.113Ein Ton aus deiner Kehle, Op.9Eine Liebesgabe, Op.92Emlék sugarak, Op.50Entre Calais et Douvres, Op.105Entre Paris et Wiesbaden, Op.71Erinnerung an den Gletschergarten in Luzern, Op.125

F

Französische Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.111Friedens Palmen, Op.27

G

Gizella-jnduló, Op.21Grand Galop infernale, Op.60Gute-Nacht

H

Hoffnungs-Sterne, Op.17Hongroise, Op.7Honi visszhang, Op.3HonvágyHurrah, hurrah, hurrah!, Op.12Hymens Blumen Spende, Op.122

I

Ich bleibe DeinIllusion

J

Jubel-Marsch, Op.11Jubiläumsfeier, Op.132

K

Kimo Kaimo Galopp, Op.84Kismártoni emlék, Op.4Kosuth undulója, Op.5

L

La belle Anglaise, Op.109La Berlinoise, Op.15La Rose, Op.18Ladies Polka, Op.29Lerchen Schwingen, Op.110L'Hirondelle, Op.16Litfaß Annoncier-Polka, Op.14Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.73

M

Masken-Galopp, Op.25Mazur przemyślski, Op.97Mazzuchelli Marsch, Op.22Mercur Galopp, Op.86MondliedMosonyi-Csárdás, Op.20

N

Nagy-Szebeni emlék, Op.123

O

Ohne Dich!Ouverture comique, Op.74Ouverture romantique, Op.75

P

Polemische Takte, Op.124Prinz Friedrich Carl Marsch, Op.13

R

Rákóczy-Ouverture, Op.76Rauenthaler BergliedReményemRheinlust, Op.85Rösige Träume Walzer, Op.72Russischer Marsch, Op.127

S

Schau Dir gern ins liebe AugeSchauspiel Ouverture, Op.131Schiller Marsch, Op.45Schlummerlied, Op.10Schmetterlingsjagd, Op.133Sempre crescendo Galopp, Op.119Serenata Veneziana, Op.98Soldatenleben, Op.62 No.1Souvenir de Wiesbaden, Op.68Spanische Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.137

T

Tempelweihe, Op.95Tokaji cseppek, Op.54Türkischer Marsch, Op.128

U

Ungarische Concert-Ouverture, Op.136Ungarische Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.108Ungarische Tänze

V

Vilma-Csárdás, Op.2Vom Rhein zur Donau, Op.138

W

Wanderlied, Op.23Werböczy-Csárdás, Op.46Wiedersehen Polka, Op.41

Á

Árva lány haj a suvegem bokrétája, Op.38

Ö

Österreich-Ungarn Walzer, Op.91

Ü

Üdvözlet Hazámhoz, Op.56Üstökös-Csárdás, Op.49
Wikipedia
Béla 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.