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American composer, cellist and conductor Victor Herbert was born in Guernsey on 1 February 1859. He studied in Germany.
He's best known for writing a series of musicals, including Babes in Toyland, Cyrano de Bergerac and It Happened in Nordland.
Victor Herbert died suddenly from a heart attack in New Haven, Connecticut on 26 May 1924, aged sixty-five.
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