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Book Title: Memorial History Of Louisville  (1896)

Louisville Amateur Orchestra, 1879-1882 (Louisville KY)

names:  Schueler, Shackleton, Hildebrand, Marcosson, Duke, Hast

In 1878-9 a few amateurs formed the Louisville 
Amateur Orchestra and engaged Prof. Schueler as 
director, with C. H. Shackleton as president.  The 
object of the orchestra was to develop a taste for 
orchestral music among its members, and to afford 
them an opportunity of practical instruction and experience.

The programs were mostly of a light character, 
but the society developed quite a number of young 
players, some of whom have since become more or less 
prominent.  Charles Hildebrand, first violin in the 
Thomas Orchestra, had his first experience here, 
as did also Sol Marcosson and Miss Currie Duke.  
This orchestra was in existence about three years—
from 1879 to 1882—with a membership varying from 
thirty-five to fifty, and in that time gave about twenty concerts.
	
When this orchestra was organized Prof. Hast gave 
them a quantity of music, which included some of the 
finest work then extant, such as some of the Beethoven 
symphonies, some of Haydn and Mozart, overtures by 
Wagner, Cherubini, Mendelssohn and many others.


source:  Mildred J. Hill, “History of Music in Louisville”  
in Memorial History of Louisville  from its First Settlement 
to the Year 1896, ed. J. Stoddard Johnson (1896)

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