He was the author of A Condensed History of Music (1888), A History of Orchestra Music in Chicago, and contributed musical articles regularly to the Chicago Daheim. References External links 1827 births 1899 deaths American conductors (music) American male conductors (music) American male classical composers American non-fiction writers Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States Forty-Eighters American Romantic composers 19th-century classical composers 19th-century conductors (music) 19th-century American composers 19th-century American male musicians People from the Margraviate of Moravia People from Olomouc District Musicians from Chicago