FRIEDEMANN, CARL

Carl Berthold Ulrich Friedemann gained world-wide fame as a conductor of both military and civilian bands and also as a composer whose works are still performed nearly a century after their creation. His most famous march was written in 1888 when he was twenty-six; Carl Fischer of New York was publishing his works before the turn of the century; and the Sousa Band recorded his Slavonic Rhapsody twice in 1909. Born in Mücheln, near Leipzig , Germany, in 1862, he learned to...