Box 2

This collection contains assembled material by and about the Boston Conservatory's founder, Julius Eichberg. Materials include copies of published scores and method books as well as images of and secondary resources about Eichberg. With the exception of an 1870 certificate, this collection contains no records regarding Eichberg's establishment or operation of the Conservatory.

This collection contains assembled material by and about the Boston Conservatory's founder, Julius Eichberg. Materials include copies of published scores and method books as well as images of and secondary resources about Eichberg. With the exception of an 1870 certificate, this collection contains no records regarding Eichberg's establishment or operation of the Conservatory.

Included: handwritten biography; “History of National Peace Jubilee and Great Music Festival” excerpt; “Free to Sing: The Story of the First African American Opera Company” which mentions Eichberg’s composition “The Doctor of Alcantara” performed by the Colored American Opera Company, the first African American opera company in the US; “From Mendelssohn to the Fenway” - FensNews Aug 2008; New York Times obituary [photocopy], January 20, 1893

Photo negative; Large b/w reprint, date unknown; Portrait, credit Warren, date not known; Portrait, credit Coolidge, 1880s(?); Portrait, pulled from A Hundred Years of Music in America: An Account of Musical Effort in America”, by Mathews, no photo credit.