- He had his first performances as a violinist in his father's band in 1908.
- His career also flourished during World War II and he continued to write the music for movies, among them Das Mädchen von Fanö" (1941), "...reitet für Deutschland" (1941), "Rembrandt" (1942) and "Die Zaubergeige" (1944).
- After World War II Melichar became increasingly polemic in his attacks on modern music. His pamphlets include Die unteilbare Musik ("Indivisible music" 1952), Musik in der Zwangsjacke ("Music in the Straitjacket" 1958), and Schönberg und die Folgen ("Schoenberg and his Consequences" 1960).
- He wrote a symphonic poem: 'Der Dom' in 1934.
- He was a student of Joseph Marx at the Vienna Academy of Music, then of Franz Schreker at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, but later became increasingly culturally conservative.
- Besides his activity as a filmcomposer he also wrote operas, chamber music, piano pieces and songs.
- As a music critic, Alois Melichar acquired notoriety by his intemperate attacks on better composers than himself.
- The filmcomposer Alois Melichar grew up in a musical environment. His father was a bandmaster and therefore the young Alois Melichar already got violin lessons as a child.
- From 1923 to 1926 Alois Melichar was in the Caucasus, where he collected materials on Caucasian folk songs.
- After his education he combined his passion for traveling with his job and he worked in countries like the Georgian Republic, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Finally he returned to Germany and he first got a job as a music editor for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, afterwards he became a conductor for the Deutsche Grammphon-Gesellschaft and later for the Berlin Philharmonica Orchestra.
- He was able to enter the film business as a filmcomposer too and he wrote the music for numerous movies of the 30s.
- He was the father of actor Rudolf Melichar.
- He studied counterpoint at the music academy in Vienna, and afterwards he went to Berlin in 1920 where he studied composition at the music academy.
- He continued his career seamlessly after the war and he became the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
- His abilities as a filmcomposer were still demanded as well and he wrote the music to numerous movies again till 1956.
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