Julius Eichberg

Julius Eichberg ( born June 13, 1824 in Dusseldorf, † January 18, 1893 in Boston ) was a German -American violinist and composer.

Life

Julius Eichberg was already formed in his childhood at the Musikhochschule in Würzburg and moved at the age of 16 or 19 years on the recommendation of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Conservatory in Brussels. He received both in violin and composition in a first prize of this institution, moved to Switzerland and worked in Basel and Bern, before embarking on a career at the Conservatory of Geneva. In Geneva, he was also director of church music. 1856 or 1857 he moved to the United States. He first lived for a time in New York City and then moved to Boston. For seven years, from 1859 to 1866, he was head of the orchestra at the Boston Museum. Julius Eichberg founded in 1867 by the Boston Conservatory, whose director he was. He also worked as Superintendent of Music, Public Schools of Boston.

He wrote several works on music education, including Eichberg 's Complete Method for the Violin, and published from the 1860s, a number of operettas. These bear the title The Doctor of Alcantara ( libretto by Benjamin Edward Woolf ), The Rose of Tyrol, The Two Cadis and A Night in Rome.