Eichberg biography
Julius Eichberg
German-born composer (–)
Julius Eichberg (13 June – 19 January ) was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
Julius Eichberg was born in Düsseldorf, Germany to a Jewish family.
His first musical instruction came from his father whose pupil was an acceptable violin player by his seventh year.
Eichberg biography death A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Richard Eichberg]]; see its history for attribution. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. Selected filmography [ edit ]. December 28, aged 35 Baltimore , Maryland, United States.He also received instruction outside the family.[1] He attended the Musical Academy of Würzburg as a child. Upon the recommendation of Felix Mendelssohn, he entered the Brussels Conservatoire at the age of nineteen, where he took first prizes for violin playing and composition. He was a pupil of BelgiancomposerCharles Auguste de Bériot, studied composition under François-Joseph Fétis, and studied violin under Lambert Joseph Meerts.
For eleven years he occupied the post of professor in the Conservatoire of Geneva.
In , he went to the United States, staying two years in New York City and then proceeding to Boston, where he became the chef d'orchestre at the Boston Museum. In he founded and directed the Boston Conservatory of Music, and in the same year he was elected superintendent of music in the Boston Public Schools, which position he long held.
He also founded the Eichberg Violin School;[1]Marietta Sherman Raymond was a student.[3] He later composed symphonies and piano pieces. Eichberg died in Boston on January 19, ; his obituary gives January [4] He was interred at Mount Auburn cemetery, the first burial there of an identifiable Jew.[5]
Family
He married Sophie Mertens, and they had one child, Annie Philippine Eichberg, who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, c.
Her second husband was the English publisher John Lane.[citation needed]
Works
Eichberg published several educational works on music. As a composer he is particularly known for his three operettas, The Rose of Tyrol (), The Two Cadis () and A Night in Rome, and the operaThe Doctor of Alcantara () to an English libretto by Benjamin Edward Woolf.[6]
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