I am currently selling a series of great classic European 78 rpm orchestral recordings on all the great European labels:

early BLUE Label with Irish Star composer and Conductor Victor Herbert and his Orchestra 12" 78 rpm recording.

Conducting with a long intro before the Dance: Ponchielli GIOCONDA Dance of the Hours  Take 8

Anton Rubinstein Kammenoi Ostrov Take 5

Condition: Very good Plus, unworn and shiny, fine scratches throughout, plays E- very quiet faint crackle and ticks

Still a great copy

Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 û May 26, 1924) was a composer of light opera, cellist and conductor. He was prominent among the tin pan alley composers and later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).

Biography
Herbert was born in Dublin, Ireland, and at age three and a half, shortly after the death of his father, moved to live with his playwright grandfather, where he received encouragement in his creative endeavours. However, after his mother remarried a physician, his music was put on hold until a relatively late age.

[edit] Early career
Herbert received his early musical training in Europe at the Stuttgart Conservatory, where he developed into an outstanding cellist. He played cello in the orchestra of Johann Strauss in Vienna. He came to the United States in 1886 when his wife, soprano Therese F÷rster, was engaged by the Metropolitan Opera Company. He played cello in the Met orchestra. Madame Herbert-F÷rster sang the title role in the Met's first production of Verdi's Aida.

[edit] Conductor
In 1892, Victor Herbert exhibited another side of his musical life when he became conductor of the 22nd Regimental Band of the New York National Guard, succeeding the great Patrick Gilmore; the following year he took over leadership of GilmoreÆs civilian band following GilmoreÆs death. Herbert conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 until 1902, building that orchestra into a major American ensemble, with tours to major cities, including New York and Chicago, where his Auditorium Festival March celebrated the twelfth anniversary of Chicago's Auditorium Theatre in 1901, designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Six years later, Herbert founded the Victor Herbert Orchestra and conducted programs of light orchestral music on tours and at summer resorts for many years.

[edit] Composer
Among other works, Herbert composed two operas, Natoma and Madeleine, one cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 stage productions of others including several of the Ziegfeld Follies, 31 compositions for orchestra including the Auditorium Festival March (1901), nine band compositions, nine cello compositions and five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions, one flute and clarinet duet with orchestra, 54 songs not including those from other works, 12 choral compositions, and numerous orchestrations of works by other composers.

In 1894, Herbert composed the first of his operettas, Prince Ananias, which was soon followed by the successful The Wizard of the Nile, The Serenade and The Fortune Teller. Starting in 1903, Babes in Toyland, Mlle. Modiste, The Red Mill, Naughty Marietta, and other successes made him one of the best-known figures in American music. He finally realized his long-standing intention to compose an Irish operetta, Eileen, produced in 1917. Herbert's last operetta was The Dream Girl in 1924.