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Joachim students in the Philadelphia Orchestra
All of these violinists played in the first years of the orchestra, whose first season was in 1900. None stayed long. Carl Döll/Doell (25.12.1869-1939) had been concertmaster at Montreux, Switzerland, before coming to the US. He does not seem to have pursued a career in an orchestra. Edward A. Stringer (18.9.1872-after 1946) was born in […]
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Mark Twain compared Berlin to Chicago in the 1890s because of its modern freshly built status in contrast to older cities. “The German Chicago,” first published 1892; reprinted in The German Metropolis Berlin 1880-1940 “The bulk of the Berlin of today has about it no suggestions of a former period. The site it stands on […]
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