Edward Mollenhauer

Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914) was an American violinist and composer.

Photo of Edward Mollenhauer (circa 1870) by J. B. Gardner from PictureHistory.com

Biography

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, joined 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), Breakers (1881), and The Masked Ball. He soloed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for six years.[1] He also created a piece for violin with piano accompaniment, "The Boy Paganini" which is still played worldwide.[2] Among those he taught were African-American soloist and orchestra director, Walter F. Craig.[3]

See also

• List of string quartet composers

References

1. "Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914)". picturehistory.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
2. "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.
3. 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). "Mollenhauer, Edward" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.