Paul Steindorff
Paul Steindorff (born June 29, 1864 in Dessau , † February 18, 1927 in Oakland / California ) was an American conductor of German origin.
Steindorff has worked as a conductor of marching bands, big bands and choirs and has directed musical performances on Broadway and performances of operas. He became known with the opera company of Lillian Russell , with whom he staged Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Périchole at the New York Abbey Theater in 1895 and performed in front of prisoners in the prison The Tombs in 1897 . Between 1889 and 1900 he directed four Broadway shows as musical director: The Belle of Bohemia , The Singing Girl , The Fortune Teller and The Charlatan .
At the invitation of his friend Teddy Hartman , he went to the Tivoli Opera in New York in 1901 . There he conducted a. a. the American premiere of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and Ruggero Leoncavallos Zazà . From 1902 to 1906 he led the Golden Gate Park Band , with whom he performed regularly in front of an audience of 20,000. On the occasion of Theodore Roosevelt's visit to San Francisco in 1903, he performed with a band at the Mechanics' Pavilion .
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , he went with the stars of the Tivoli Opera to Oakland, where they performed shows like The Mikado , The Pirates of Penzance and The Wizard of the Nile at the Wigwam Theater as the Idora Park Comic Opera Company .
In 1908 Steindorff conducted a concert by the singer Blanche Arral in the Christian Science Hall in San Francisco, in 1910 he conducted a concert by the soprano Luisa Trettazini at Lotta's Fountain in Market Street in San Francisco in front of 90,000 listeners. In 1912 he formed the Oakland Municipal Band . From 1912 to 1923 he headed the music department of the University of California at Berkeley . Steindorff died in 1927 of complications from a diabetic coma .
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- Find A Grave - Paul Steindorff
- Berkeley Daily Gazette, February 18, 1927 - Obituary
- Michael Colbruno: Lives of the Dead: Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland - Paul Steindorff - Famous Conductor
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| SURNAME | Steindorff, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1927 |
| Place of death | Oakland |