Frank Damrosch

Frank Heino Damrosch ( born June 22, 1859 in Breslau, † October 22, 1937 in New York ) was a German - American conductor and music educator.

Damrosch came with his father, the conductor Leopold Damrosch in 1871 in the United States. He lived for several years in Denver / Colorado, where he was organist and choirmaster before becoming in 1885 choirmaster at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He has also conducted other choirs of the city and founded in 1892 the People's Singing Classes (now People's Choral Union) and in 1893 the Musical Art Society.

From 1897 to 1905 he had the oversight of the music education in public schools of New York, in addition, he conducted from 1898 to 1912, the Oratorio Society and the Symphony Concerts for Young People.

In 1905 he founded with James Loeb, the New York Institute of Musical Art, which he directed until 1933. This later became part of the Juilliard School of Music.

His siblings were known as a musician: his brother Walter Damrosch also as a conductor, his sister Clara man as co-founder of the Mannes College of Music.

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