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4 unusual facts about Frank Damrosch


Augustus D. Juilliard

In 1926, the school was merged with the New York Institute of Musical Art, a music academy established in 1905 by Dr. Frank Damrosch (godson of Franz Liszt) dedicated to providing a teaching level equaling that of the European conservatories.

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Frank Damrosch (1859–1937), Silesian-American conductor, music-educator

Edna White

At 11, after an invitation from Frank Damrosch, she entered the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School) in New York City, where, under the instruction of Adolphe Dubois, she switched from the cornet to the trumpet.

Hugo Walter Voigtlander

On 18 March 1897, he played two viola d'amore solos in Carnegie Hall accompanied by the Musical Art Society of New York under the direction of Frank Damrosch.


Musicians Foundation

The certificate was signed by Frank Damrosch, August Fraemcke, Rubin Goldmark, Hugo Grunwald, Sigmund Herzog, Ferdinand von Inten and Franz Kneisel, and these gentlemen, together with Rudolph Schirmer and Maurice M. Sternberger, were designated as Directors to serve until the first annual meeting in April, 1914.

United States Armed Forces School of Music

In 1911, Frank Damrosch, director of the Institute of Musical Art (later renamed The Juilliard School), and Arthur A. Clappe, a graduate of the Royal Military School of Music, began a formal school for Army bandmasters at Fort Jay.


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