Richard Eilenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer
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Place of Birth: Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Richard Eilenberg
- Richard Eilenberg (13 January 1848, Merseburg – 5 December 1927, Berlin) was a German composer. His musical career began with the study of piano and composition.
- At 18 years old, he composed his first work - a concert overture.
- As a volunteer he participated in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871.
- In 1873, Eilenberg became the music director and conductor in Stettin.
- In 1889, he decided to move to Berlin as a freelance composer, where his second marriage with his wife Dorothee started.
- They lived on 73 Bremer Street. Eilenberg composed marches and dances for orchestra, harmony and military music, and a ballet The Rose of Shiras, op.
- 134.
- He also composed the operettas ComteĂź Cliquot (1909), King Midas, Marietta, and The Great Prince.
- The most notable music that he composed were his marches, including The Coronation March (for Alexander III of Russia), and Janitscharen-Marsch, op.
- 295. Some of his music pieces, attributable to the salon and its entertainment, were The Petersburg Sleigh Ride op.
- 52 and The Mill In The Black Forest, op.
- 57 (1885).
- Eilenberg completed 350 compositions throughout his life, including ten fantasies after melodies of great masters, like Ehrenkränze der Tonkunst, op.
- 268-277 and the suite Durch Feld und Wald, op.
- 119. His grave is located on the South-West Cemetery of the Berlin Ecclesiastical Assembly in Potsdam.
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