JULIUS

See also:

• JULIUS EICHBERG (1824-1893)

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