A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Eichberg, Julius
[1]EICHBERG, Julius, born at Düsseldorf, Germany, June 13, 1824, came of a musical family, and received his first instruction from his father. When but seven years old he played the violin acceptably. Regular teachers were employed for him after he had reached his eighth year, among them Julius Rietz, from whom he received lessons in harmony. In 1843 Eichberg entered the Conservatoire at Brussels, then under the direction of Fétis, and graduated in 1845 with first prizes for violin-playing and composition. He was then appointed a professor in the Conservatoire at Geneva, where he remained eleven years. In 1857 he went to New York, and two years later to Boston, where he has lived ever since. He was director of the orchestra at the Boston Museum for seven years, beginning in 1859, and in 1867 established the Boston Conservatory of Music, of which he is still the head (1887), and which enjoys in the United States a high reputation, especially for the excellence of its violin school. Mr. Eichberg's compositions are many and in various forms, for solo voices, chorus, violin, string quartet, pianoforte, etc. He has also prepared several textbooks and collections of studies for the violin, and collections of vocal exercises and studies for the use of youths in the higher classes of the public schools. [See vol. iv. p. 203 a.] Mr. Eichberg's operettas have been very successful. He has produced four—'The Doctor of Alcantara,' 'The Rose of Tyrol,' 'The Two Cadis,' and 'A Night in Rome.' [See vol. ii. p. 530 b.]
[ F. H. J. ]
- ↑ Copyright 1889 by F. H. Jenks.