Question: What year did the composer of "Where the Lark Sings" die?

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Where the Lark Sings: Where the Lark Sings (German: Wo die Lerche singt) may refer to:

Rockgiganten vs. Strassenköter: "Rockgiganten vs. Strassenköter" (also "Rockgiganten vs. Straßenköter") <nowiki>[</nowiki>Rock giants vs. street mutts] is a split EP by Die Ärzte and Terrorgruppe.  Die Ärzte sings 2 songs of Terrorgruppe and other way around.  The 1st track "Mach die Augen zu" was later released on GötterDÄmmerung.

Where the Lark Sings (film): Where the Lark Sings (German:Wo die Lerche singt) is a 1936 musical comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Mártha Eggerth, Alfred Neugebauer and Hans Söhnker.  It is an Operetta film, based on the 1918 work "Where the Lark Sings" by Franz Lehár.  The film was a German language co-production between Hungary, Germany and Switzerland

Douglas Pipes: Douglas Pipes is a film music composer whose feature films include the Academy Award nominated "Monster House" and the horror film "Trick 'r Treat".  His brassy instrumentations have drawn comparisons to action-music composer guru Alan Silvestri and his other orchestral-music composer counterparts Michael Giacchino, J.A.C. Redford and Joel McNeely.  His chance encounter with Gil Kenan at UCLA California made him the perfect composer for this soundtrack and composed the music on his short film "The Lark".

Where the Lark Sings (operetta): Where the Lark Sings (German: "Wo die Lerche singt", Hungarian: "A pacsirta") is a 1918 operetta by the Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.  The libretto by A. M. Willner and was inspired by "Dorf und Stadt" by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer.  The work premiered at the Royal Opera in Budapest on 1 January 1918.  It was one of Lehár's most successful wartime operettas.

Franz Lehár: Franz Lehár (Hungarian: "Lehár Ferenc" ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer.  He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is "The Merry Widow" ("Die lustige Witwe").

Henry Bishop (composer): Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (18 November 178630 April 1855) was an English composer.  He is most famous for the songs "Home!  Sweet Home! " and "Lo!  Here the Gentle Lark."  He was the composer or arranger of some 120 dramatic works, including 80 operas, light operas, cantatas, and ballets.  Knighted in 1842, he was the first musician to be so honoured.  Bishop worked for all the major theatres of London in his era — including the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Vauxhall Gardens and the Haymarket Theatre, and was Professor of Music at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford.  His second wife was the noted soprano Anna Bishop, who scandalised British society by leaving him and conducting an open liaison with the harpist Nicolas-Charles Bochsa until the latter's death in Sydney.

Yousif Sheronick: Yousif Sheronick (born 1967, Cedar Rapids, IA) is a percussionist, arranger, and composer, who works in classical, world, jazz and rock genres.  The child of Lebanese immigrants, Sheronick graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids in 1984, earned an undergraduate music degree at the University of Iowa, where his principal teacher was Thomas L. Davis, and then a master's degree at Yale University in 1991; his principal teacher at Yale was .  He moved to New York where he worked with Glen Velez, whom he considers a mentor and in whose ensemble Handance he has been a long-term member.  Since 1996 he has been a member of the Ethos Percussion Group.  He has toured internationally with Foday Musa Suso and Philip Glass in a production of Glass's "The Screens", and has also performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Sonny Fortune, Cindy Blackman-Santana, Paul Winter and, most recently, duoJalal with violist and wife Kathryn Lockwood of the Lark Quartet.  He has published compositions and instructional videos, and has recorded with Ethos, Jalal, the Lark Quartet, and in a solo CD.

Rather Die Young: "Rather Die Young" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her fourth studio album, "4" (2011).  Composed by Beyoncé, Jeff Bhasker, Luke Steele, the song's development was motivated by the fact that Beyoncé wanted a song that would help people through both their painful and happy moments.  "Rather Die Young" is an R&B-soul power ballad that is instrumentally complete with synthesizers, a piano, a strummy guitar, and heavy drums, which were inspired by the work of the American band Earth, Wind & Fire.  Lyrically, the song talks about the inability to fight what the heart wants.  The female protagonist sings to an indifferent love interest, whom she likens to American actor James Dean and tells him that she prefers to die rather than live without him.

Reginald Spofforth: Reginald Spofforth (1769 (baptised 12 September) - 8 September 1827) was an English musician.  He was born in Southwell, Nottinghamshire but moved to London around 1790.  He was active as an organist, conductor and music teacher, but he is best remembered as a composer.  His best known works are the glees "Hail Smiling Morn" (which has been described as having been "possibly the most popular glee in the entire repertory") and "Hark!  the Lark at Heaven's Gate Sings", which are included in a number of recent collections of part-songs.

Supporting paragraphs: Where the Lark Sings (operetta) Franz Lehár
Answer: 1948