Edward Mollenhauer
Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914) was an American violinist and composer.
Biography
[edit]Mollenhauer was born in Erfurt, Prussia. He studied under Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and Louis Spohr, and had become famous in Germany and at Saint Petersburg before he was twenty-five years old. To escape conscription, he went to England, where he met conductor Louis-Antoine Jullien, and accompanied him to New York City in 1853. He settled there and became a founder in America of the Conservatory method of teaching the violin. Mollenhauer's best-known compositions for the violin are his quartets. He also wrote the operas, The Corsican Bride (1861), Love among the Breakers (also known as Down among the Breakers; 1878),[1][2][3] and The Masked Ball (also known as The Wager; 1879). He soloed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for six years.[4] He also created 2 pieces for violin with piano accompaniment, "The Boy Paganini" and "The Infant Paganini" both are still played worldwide.[5] Among those he taught were African-American soloist and orchestra director, Walter F. Craig.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Adrienne Fried Block (Fall 2004). Ray Allen (ed.). "ISAM Newsletter" (PDF). University Press of Kentucky. p. 13. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 July 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ J. A. Sokalski (Joseph Anton) (2007). Pictorial Illusionism: The Theatre of Steele Mackaye. Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780773560291. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ Gerald Bordman; Richard Norton (2010). American Musical Theatre (4 ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780199729708.
- ^ "Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914)". picturehistory.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
- ^ "Boy Paganini, The (Fantasia) Fantasia for Violin and Piano By Edward Mollenhauer". sheetmusicplus.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ^ Arneax, J. A. All the Colored Authors, The Sun (New York, New York) May 15, 1887, page 9, Accessed October 11, 2016 at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6980047/all_the_colored_authors_the_sun_new/
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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