Camille Zeckwer

Camille Zeckwer ( born June 26, 1875 in Philadelphia, † August 7, 1924 in Southampton ) was an American composer.

The son of Richard Zeckwer had first lessons from his father and studied 1893-95 in New York City with Antonín Dvořák. Then he studied in Berlin with Philipp Scharwenka composition and Florian Zajic violin.

In the 1910s he conducted in Edwin Adler Fleisher Symphony Club, after the resignation of his father in 1917 he became director of the Philadelphia Musical Academy. He composed an opera, a symphonic poem, a piano concerto, a "Swedish Fantasy" for violin and orchestra, chamber music, piano pieces, choral works and songs.

Swell

• Find A Grave - Camille Wolfgang Zeckwer
• Alfred Baumgartner Propylaea world of music. The composers, Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3549078358, pp. 579-80

• Man
• Born 1875
• Died in 1924
• American composer