"However, it became his first major international success after "The Merry Widow".Between those operettas, he had composed two one-act stage works, "Peter und Paul reisen ins Schlaraffenland" ("Peter and Paul Travel to Paradise") and "Mitislaw der Moderne" ("Fashionable Mitislaw"), followed by his indifferently received three-act operetta "Der Mann mit den drei Frauen" ("The Man with Three Wives") in 1908 and the somewhat more successful "Das Fürstenkind" ("Maids of Athens") which premiered in October 1909, one month before "Der Graf von Luxemburg".