Background
He was born on October 1, 1808 in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), a descendant of an ancient Polish family.
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He was born on October 1, 1808 in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), a descendant of an ancient Polish family.
Sobolewski received a fine musical education, eventually studying with Carl Friedrich Zelter and Carl Maria von Weber.
In 1830 he was appointed director of music at the Konigsberg theatre, and in 1835 became cantor at the Altstadtische Kirche. The Philharmonische Gesellschaft, a dilettante orchestra, was founded in 1838 and he was elected conductor, being similarly honored when the Musikalische Akademie, a mixed chorus, came into existence in 1843.
In the course of his Konigsberg period, he composed and produced the operas Imogen (1832), Velleda (1835) and others. He developed literary activity, functioning as music critic of the Ostpreussiche Zeitung, and as correspondent, under the pseudonym J. Feski, of Robert Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik. He became a Davidsbandler, one of that redoubtable band gathered around Schumann to wage warfare upon the musical Philistines.
He was appointed director of music at the Bremen theatre, presumably in 1854. During the Bremen period he published the pamphlets Oper, nicht Drama (1857), Debatten uber Musik (1857) and others. His opera Komala received its initial performance at Bremen in 1857 and was accorded the exceptional distinction of production at Weimar under the aegis of Franz Liszt the following year.
Apparently leaving Bremen at the end of the season, Sobolewski took pasage for America, arriving in Milwaukee, Wiscosin, before the end of July 1859. In an incredibly short time he composed the opera Mohega, which was given two performances by the Milwaukee Musikverein, October 11, and November 1, 1859. Sobolewski became conductor of the short-lived Milwaukee Philharmonic Society, functioning at both concerts of the first (and last) season on February 28 and April 13, 1860.
The St. Louis Philharmonic Society was organized in June 1860, and Sobolewski was engaged as conductor. He led his first concert a month before Hans Balatka directed the initial performance of the Chicago Philharmonic Society.
At the outset of the seventh season he resigned and devoted himself to teaching and composing. He remained professionally active until an apoplectic stroke cut him down in his sixty-fourth year. He was an accomplished linguist, master of five languages.
Eduard Sobolewski was the founder and conductor of the Philharmonische Gesellschaft, as well as the founder of the Königsberg Musikalische Akademie. In Milwaukee he founded the city's Philharmonic Society Orchestra alongside efforts to stage operas. Sobolewski did missionary work of heroic dimensions, his orchestral programs constituting a liberal education in the appreciation of the classical and romantic schools. He also contributed to the Journal of Speculative Philosophy the articles: "A Dialogue on Music" (1867), "The New School of Music" (1868) and others.
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Sobolewski was married three times. By his first wife, Bertha Dorn, he had four children, by his second wife, three, and by his third wife, Bertha von Kleist, six.
