In Vienna he became conductor in 1865 at the Theater in der Josefstadt. From 1866 to the 1880s he was at the Carltheater, conducting operettas including premieres of works by Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and others. He was afterwards the conductor of Nathaniel Meyer von Rothschild's chamber orchestra. He was also a singing teacher; among his students was the opera singer Antonie Schläger. He died in Vienna in 1923.
