kotzschmar

Updated: August 6, 2026

He was about the earliest of native writers to convince foreign musicians that some good could come out of Nazareth. He was born in Portland, Me., January 9, 1839. He studied music first under a local teacher, Kotzschmar, making his début as organist at the age of eighteen.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions