- He is the father of writer Franzi Ascher-Nash, who was born in Vienna on 28 November 1910 and died in Millersville, Pennsylvania, on 1 September 1991.(wiki).
- He studied law at the University of Vienna where he received his doctorate in 1904. He also attended the Vienna Conservatory from 1898 and studied composition under Robert Fuchs and Franz Schmidt.
- His daughter Franzi Ascher became a writer.
- His artistic estate is kept at the Leo Ascher Centre of Operetta Music at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, which also provides the Leo Ascher Music Award of up to $1000 to undergraduates.
- Leo wrote his first composition, a waltz at the age of 13 in 1893.
- His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local umbrella manufacturer.
- After his arrival in New York, he continued to write musicals, patriotic songs and children's pieces until his death on 25 February 1942.
- Ascher began his career as a composer with the opera Mamzell Courage. His first operetta, Vergeltsgott to a libretto by Viktor Léon, premiered on 14 October 1905 at the Theater an der Wien.
- He had his first success as a composer in 1925 when his first operetta "Vergelt's Gott" was performed.
- His most famous work was Hoheit tanzt Walzer; its premiere on 24 February 1912 at the Raimund Theater was followed by a run of 500 performances.
- Leo Ascher emigrated via France and England to the USA in 1938 after his brief arrest in Germany.
- In the 20s Leo Ascher also composed so-called Wienerlieder and chansons.
- In New York he worked as a lawyer and he specialized in copy right. As a composer he wrote other songs but was not able to tie in with his former successes.
- The composer Leo Ascher got an education for piano and composition at the conservatory for music in Vienna.
- He wrote 30 stage works, among them Vindobona, du herrliche Stadt (Vienna, 22 July 1910) and Bruder Leichtsinn (Bürgertheater, 28 December 1917).
- He studied also law which he finished successfully in 1904.
- His operetta Der Soldat der Marie (1916) enjoyed even 800 performances in Berlin.
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