Lehár assisted in leading operetta into the Silver Age of Viennese Operetta. During this time, Viennese Censorship laws were changed in 1919. Lehár is most responsible for giving the genre renewed vitality. Studying at the Prague Conservatory Lehár began as a theatre violinist and then took off as a composer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During this 1905, Lehár’s "Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)" paved a pathway for composers such as Fall, Oscar Strauss, and Kálmán to continue the tradition of Operetta. Lehár, was also one of the first composers who began to incorporate into film. ]