Genée, (Franz Friedrich) Richard (1823-1895)

German conductor and composer. He studied medicine at first, but took to music and became a conductor successively at Reval, Riga, Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Danzig, Mainz, Schwerin, Amsterdam, Prague, and Vienna. He wrote or collaborated in many libretti for operettas by Viennese composers and was librettist of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus/The Bat.

Works operettas Der Geiger aus Tirol (1857), Der Musikfeind, Die Generalprobe, Rosita, Der schwarze Prinz, Am Runenstein (with Flotow), Der Seekadett (1876), Nanon, Im Wunderlande der Pyramiden, Die letzten Mohikaner (after Fenimore Cooper, 1879), Nisida, Rosina (1881), Die Zwillinge (1885), Die Piraten, Die Dreizehn; part-songs including the comic Italienischer Salat.