Biography

Relocated to New York City in 1911, some 15 years after his first work debuted on Broadway.

He composed (or contributed to) some forty musical comedies and operettas.

Many of Caryll's musicals were given in Paris, Vienna, and Budapest at a time when the English-language musicals were largely ignored on the continent, and he composed original scores for Paris (S.A.R., or Son altesse royale, 1908) and Vienna (Die Reise nach Cuba, 1901).

Caryll died of a haemorrhage in New York at age 60 while rehearsing the musical Little Miss Raffles, which, contrary to the title of his New York Times obituary, he had not finished composing. It was completed atter his death, with a score mostly by Armand Vecsey, and produced under the title The Hotel Mouse on Broadway in 1922.

He was a Belgian-born composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language, who made his career in London and later New York.