Damrosch
Damrosch names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Damrosch WALTER JOHANNES, an American musician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WALTER JOHANNES, an American musician; born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1862; son of DR. LEOPOLD DAMROSCH (q. v.). He became a citizen of the United States in 1871. He inherited the musical talent of his father, and succeeded him in his enterprises. He was the special exponent of the Wagnerian school of music, and conducted operatic performances in all the large cities, proving himself most acceptable a He also composed an opera leader. founded on Hawthorne's e's tale of "The Scarlet Letter," besides other excellent music. He married in 1890 Margaret, daughter of James G. Blaine. In 1903 he reorganized as a permanent orchestra the New York Symphony Orchestra to the leadership of which he devoted himself exclusively since then and which he put in the forefront of symphony orchestras. The entire orchestra made a highly successful tour of France and England in 1920. During the World War he reformed the military bands of the A. E. F. and founded a school for bandmasters at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France.
Damrosch FRANK HEINO (däm'rosh)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK HEINO (däm'rosh), h), an American musician; born in Breslau, Germany, June 22, 1859. He was trained by his father, LEOPOLD (q. v.), and in 1882 became conductor of the Denver Chorus Club and supervisor of music in the public schools of that city. He was chorus master at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, from 1885 to 1891, and in 1892 organized the People's Singing Class. From 1897 to 1905 he was director of music in the publie schools of New York City. In 1893 he established the Musical Art Society and in 1898 the Symphony Concerts for Young People. Beginning with 1886, he was director of various choral and orchestral societies in Newark, N. J., Philadelphia, and New York. In 1905 he organized the Institute of Musical Art, New York.
Damrosch LEOPOLD, a German musician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEOPOLD, a German musician; born in Posen, Prussia, Oct. 22, 1832; graduated with high honors from the University of Berlin, and began the practice of medicine; but his love for music predominated, and in 1864 he gave up his medical profession and started on a tour as violinist. He met with great success and on his return to Posen was appointed musical director at the Stadt-Theater. He subsequently held a similar post in Breslau. Coming to the United States, he was made leader of the Arion Society in New York, and subsequently founded the Oratorio and Symphony societies of that city. He died Feb. 15, 1885.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Walter Damrosch in 1921 at the height of his concert-hall career, "devoted exclusively" to the New York Symphony Orchestra; that orchestra merged into the New York Philharmonic in 1928, and Walter turned instead to radio, where his NBC Music Appreciation Hour (1928-1942) piped commentary and classics into American classrooms and made him the best-known musical voice in the country until his death in 1950. Frank's Institute of Musical Art, founded in 1905 and described here as new, combined with the Juilliard Graduate School in 1926 and is now simply the Juilliard School, easily the family's most durable monument; Frank died in 1937. Walter's "Scarlet Letter" opera, praised here, has essentially vanished from the stage, as has most of his composing. The account of Leopold, dead since 1885, needs no correction at all.
Written for this edition, 2026.