Julius Eichberg

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Julius Eichberg
Lines from Eichberg's hand

Julius Eichberg (born June 13, 1824 in Düsseldorf , † January 18, 1893 in Boston ) was a German-American violinist and composer .

Life

Julius Eichberg was trained at the Musikhochschule in Würzburg when he was a child and, at the age of 16 or 19, on the recommendation of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, transferred to the Conservatory in Brussels . He received first prize from this institution in both violin playing and composition, moved to Switzerland and worked in Basel and Bern before embarking on a career at the Geneva Conservatory . In Geneva he was also the church music director .

In 1856 or 1857 he moved to the United States . He first lived in New York City for some time and then moved to Boston . For seven years, from 1859 to 1866, he directed the orchestra in the Boston Museum . Julius Eichberg founded the Boston Conservatory in 1867 and became its director. He also worked as the superintendent of music for the Boston Public Schools .

He wrote several works on music education , including Eichberg's Complete Method for the Violin , and published a number of operettas from the 1860s . These are titled The Doctor of Alcantara (libretto by Benjamin Edward Woolf ), The Rose of Tyrol , The Two Cadis and A Night in Rome .

Eichberg died in Boston on January 18, 1893, at the age of 68.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in the New York Times, January 20, 1893
  2. ↑ a b life data on editionsilvertrust.com
  3. ↑ Short biography in Journal of Research in Music Education 44, 1996, No. 2, p. 147.
  4. ↑ Gerald Martin Bordman, Richard Norton: American Musical Theater: A Chronicle . Oxford University Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-972970-8 , pp. 22 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 11, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Article Julius Eichberg in the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1911
personal data
SURNAME Eichberg, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American violinist, educator, composer, author
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1893
Place of death Boston