Composer, organist, pianist, conductor. publisher who arrived in the
USA in 1889. He studied music with Niels Gade and Cornelius Gurlitt; in
the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig with Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.
He founded a publishing firm in Hamburg. He was a conductor and
organist in New York churches, and conducted band concerts in the old
Madison Square Garden. He organized a 75-woman orchestra for the
Atlantic Garden in New York. He joined ASCAP n 1936, and composed the
following works: "Maximillan Overture"; "Royal Overture"; "La Rose
Intermezzo"; "Our Heroes March"; "Pilgrims Love Song"; "Our Students
March"; "Pilgrims Love Song"; "Our Heroes March"; and "Olympia
Overture".
