- Alois Melichar was born on April 18, 1896 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a composer, known for Waltz War (1933), Vergiss mein nicht (1935) and 1. April 2000 (1952). He died on April 9, 1976 in Munich, Germany.
- 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.
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