(Manzoni Requiem (Excerpts) By Giuseppe Verdi / arr. Emil ...)
Manzoni Requiem (Excerpts) By Giuseppe Verdi / arr. Emil Mollenhauer Item: 00-BD9719C UPC: 029156298451 Category: Concert Band Format: Conductor Score Instrument: Concert Band Level: 3 (Medium Easy)
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Emil Mollenhauer was born on August 4, 1855, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Friedrich and Margaret (Pugh) Mollenhauer. The father was one of three brothers born in Erfurt, Germany, all of whom were excellent musicians. Friedrich and Eduard, who were violinists, came to America as members of the Jullien Orchestra which toured the United States in 1853. They remained as soloists, orchestral players, and teachers.
Heinrich, the third brother, a 'cellist, emigrated in 1856 and established a school of music in Brooklyn. Friedrich Mollenhauer was the most brilliant of the three and in addition was an able teacher. Recognizing his son's musical talent, he gave him violin lessons and the boy progressed so rapidly that he made his début with the orchestra in Niblo's Garden before he was quite nine years old.
When Emil was fourteen, he became a member of the orchestra of Booth's Theatre and played throughout Joseph Jefferson's run of six months in Rip Van Winkle. At the age of seventeen, he became one of the first violinists in the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, remaining for about eight years, when he joined the New York Symphony Society founded by Leopold Damrosch. He also became a member of both the New York and the Brooklyn Philharmonic societies. Meantime he had developed into a well-equipped pianist and was frequently called upon to act as accompanist for soloists appearing on the orchestral programs. In 1884, he settled in Boston, having accepted a position as the first violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but he resigned in 1888 to accept the more responsible position of conductor of the Germania Orchestra, later known as the Boston Festival Orchestra. He was also conductor of the Municipal Concerts until 1903. In 1899, he succeeded Reinhold L. Herman as conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society which was in need of reorganization. He remained head of this organization for twenty-eight years, resigning in May 1927, because of ill health. From 1901 until his death, he conducted the Apollo Club of Boston and at various times the oratorio societies of neighboring towns, besides conducting the People's Symphony Orchestra (1920 - 25) and the Boston Band. For a number of years, he toured the country with the Boston Festival Orchestra, visiting especially the cities in the East and Middle West which had excellent choral societies, and supplying the orchestral background for their festivals. In 1904, he conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the St. Louis Exposition and in 1915 at the San Francisco Exposition. According to Mollenhauer's own statement, Theodore Thomas exerted the greatest influence on his development as a musician, and as he entered the Thomas Orchestra in the most impressionable period of his life, he had ample opportunity to observe and learn from this conductor, whom he adored. He died suddenly at his home in Boston on the day before he was to have conducted a concert by the People's Symphony Orchestra, in Jordan Hall.
(Manzoni Requiem (Excerpts) By Giuseppe Verdi / arr. Emil ...)
Mollenhauer was conservative in his taste and extreme innovations did not appeal to him.
a member of both the New York and the Brooklyn Philharmonic societies
Mollenhauer was a versatile musician an able conductor and an excellent coach in the interpretation of opera, oratorio, and the Lied. He was a most serious musician and demanded the same quality of seriousness in those who played or sang under him.
On April 1, 1884, Mollenhauer married Mary E. Laverty, a singer of Boston, who survived him.
