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EICHBERG, JULIUS (1824-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 131 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EICHBERG, See also:JULIUS (1824-1893) , See also:German musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Dusseldorf on the 13th of See also:June 1824. When he was nineteen he entered the See also:Brussels See also:Conservatoire, where he took first prizes for See also:violin-playing and See also:composition. For eleven years he occupied the See also:post of See also:professor in the Conservatoire of See also:Geneva. In 1857 he went to the See also:United States, staying two years in New See also:York and then proceeding to See also:Boston, where he became director of the See also:orchestra at the Boston Museum. In 1867 he founded the Boston Conservatory of See also:Music. Eichberg published several educational See also:works on music; and his four operettas, The See also:Doctor of See also:Alcantara, The See also:Rose of Tyrol, The Two Cadis and A See also:Night in See also:Rome, were highly popular. He died in Boston on the 18th of See also:January 1893.

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