Gustav Luders

Gustav Luders was born in Bremen, German on December 13,1865.  A thoroughly trained musician, he immigrated to the US in 1888, settling first in Milwaukee and then in Chicago. Luders was a theatre conductor there when he wrote his first score for Little Robinson Crusoe (1899). Thereafter he wrote most of his shows with either Frank Pixley or George Ade. His most notable musicals were The Burgomaster (1900), King Dodo (1902), The Sho‐Gun (1904), Woodland (1904), The Grand Mogul (1907), The Fair Co‐ed (1909), and The Old Town (1910), but his finest score was for The Prince of Pilsen (1903). The Prince of Pilsen enjoyed international success and was constantly revived through the 1950s.  Luders died in 1913 at age 48.