DOSTAL, HERMANN

Hermann Dostal was a member of a musical family which lived in the Moravian section of Austria (now Czechoslovakia) during the latter part of the Hapsburg dynasty. His grandfather and father were both military musicians, his sister taught music in Hungary, and his nephew, Nico Dostal , composed numerous Viennese-style operettas. Hermann studied music at the Prague Conservatory for a time but soon enlisted as an apprentice musician with the 93rd Infantry Regiment at Olomouc...