Abraham Lilienthal
Abraham Lilienthal | |
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| Born | February 13, 1859 New York, New York |
| Died | March 15, 1928 (aged 69) New York, New York |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist, composer |
| Spouse |
Ida C. Salberg (m. 1885) |
| Children | 1 |
Abraham Wolf Lilienthal (February 13, 1859 – March 15, 1928) was an American violinist and composer.
Biography
[edit]Abraham Lilienthal was born in New York City on February 13, 1859, the son of Solomon Lilienthal and Louisa Schwarzschild.[1][2][3] He married Ida C. Salberg on May 15, 1885, and they had one daughter.[2]
Lilienthal was a violinist in the orchestras of Leopold Damrosch and Theodore Thomas and with the New York String Quartet.[2] Much of compositional output was chamber music,[2] but he collaborated on an opera, The Dove of Peace, with Walter Damrosch and Wallace Irving. The sheet music for his Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 can be seen at IMSLP.[4]
He died in New York City on March 15, 1928.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Joseph A. Bomberger, "Lilienthal, Abraham Wolf" in Grove Music Online - Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, published in print January 2013, published online May 2010, e-ISBN 9781561592630. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c d International Who's Who in Music and Musical Gazetteer. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918 – via Google Books.
- ^ Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. p. 507. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Cello Sonata, Op.40 (Lilienthal, Abraham Wolf) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
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- 20th-century American composers
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