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Mollenhauer

Edward Mollenhauer (1827–1914) was a German-born American violinist and composer who studied under Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst and Louis Spohr, achieving fame in Germany and St Petersburg before the age of twenty-five. To avoid conscription he fled to England, where he met the flamboyant conductor Louis-Antoine Jullien and accompanied him to New York in 1853. He settled there permanently, founded a violin school for advanced students, and became one of the originators of the Conservatory method of teaching in America. His violin showpieces The Boy Paganini and The Infant Paganini remain in circulation today, and he soloed with the New York Philharmonic for six years.

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