Benjamin Edward Woolf
Benjamin E. Woolf , was a Britishborn American violinist, composer, playwright and journalist. His best known works were the comic operas The Mighty Dollar and Westward Ho.
Benjamin Wolf was born on February 16, 1836 in London, England, the first of ten children raised by Edward and Sarah Woolf. In the late 1830s Woolfs family immigrated to America where his father, a former orchestra conductor at Londons Pavilion Theatre, would lead orchestras in Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By 1841 Woolfs family had settled in New York where his father would become a noted orchestra leader, artist, novelist and humorist. Woolf was trained on the violin by his father and received his early practical experience performing in theater orchestras.
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