Background
Leo Carl Martin Oehmler was born on August 15, 1867, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of German-American parents - Rudolph Christian Oehmler and his wife, Elizabeth (Foerster).
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Leo Carl Martin Oehmler was born on August 15, 1867, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of German-American parents - Rudolph Christian Oehmler and his wife, Elizabeth (Foerster).
Leo Oehmler began his first lessons in music at six and continued them under local instructors until 1885, when he finished a course in the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh). He then went to Germany, and for a while studied at the conservatory at Schwartzburg-Sondershausen under Paul E. M. Gruenberg (violin), Ritter (piano), and Adolph Schutze (composition). Later he went to the Stern Conservatory at Berlin and studied with Émile Sauret, Keyser, and Heinrich Ehrlich, and, in composition, with Robert Radecke. While in Germany Oehmler also became interested in Heinrich Germer's piano methods, which influenced his later career.
Leo Oehmler returned to the United States in 1891 and spent the next sixteen years teaching and concertizing in Pittsburgh and nearby cities. Among his pupils during these years was the young Charles Wakefield Cadman, destined to become one of the leading American composers of his time. In 1907 Oehmler moved to Pasadena, California, where he lived until his death.
Leo Oehmler was both a pianist and violinist, playing the violin with warmth and vigor. As a composer, Oehmler's contribution was valuable chiefly for the large quantity of teaching pieces he produced. Altogether his printed works numbered over three hundred.
Oehmler enjoyed robust health until the year before his death, when he suffered his first stroke of apoplexy. A second stroke followed a year later, and his death occurred within a few months.
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Oehmler was of a romantic nature, a lover of sentiment, generous, cordial, with a gift for telling humorous anecdotes.
On December 25, 1911, Leo Oehmler married Lillian Katharine Heche of Pomona, California, one of his pupils in piano, violin, and harmony.