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Gustav Kobbe was born on March 4, 1857 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of William August Kobbé and Sarah Lord Sistare.
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Gustav Kobbe was born on March 4, 1857 in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of William August Kobbé and Sarah Lord Sistare.
Gustav attended public school until, as a boy of ten, he went to Wiesbaden, Germany, where he studied at the Gymnasium and was the pupil of Adolf Hagen in piano and composition. Returning to New York in 1872, he entered Columbia College in 1873 and was graduated from the school of arts in 1877 and from the law school in 1879. At the same time he continued his musical studies with Joseph Mosenthal.
Kobbe began his career as a writer, choosing the journalistic road by preference. One of the editors of the Musical Record and Review (1879 - 80), he acted as assistant music critic of the New York Sun (1880 - 82), and in the latter year was chosen by the New York World to report the first Parsifal performance in Bayreuth as a special correspondent.
His literary activities in general covered a wide range of subjects. Included in his written works are New York and Its Environs (1891); Plays for Amateurs (1892); My Rosary and Other Poems (1896); Famous Actors and Actresses and Their Homes (1903); and A Tribute to the Dog (1911). His novels include Miriam (1898); Signora, a Child of the Opera-House (1902), an example of the genre known as "the musical novel"; Modern Women (1915); and All-of-a-Sudden Carmen (1917).
His Loves of Great Composers (1905) is a volume of romanticized biography. Famous American Songs (1906) and How to Appreciate Music (1906) are popularizations of their subjects for the general reader. He was an enthusiastic Wagnerian, however, and may be said to have done his best work in this special field. Wagner and His Isolde (1905), the Wagner-Wesendonk letters and the story of the friendship which inspired Tristan, is secondary in importance to Wagner's Life and Works, containing extended analyses of the music dramas, with note-examples of the leading motives. In spite of the enormous volume of Wagner literature extant, the work has been widely read.
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Kobbé was a genial person and he enjoyed many friends.
On November 11, 1882 Kobbe married Carolyn Wheeler of Scarsdale, New York.