Emil Oberhoffer

Emil Oberhoffer was a Germanborn American conductor and minor composer. He founded the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra , and was its conductor for the firstyears of its existence.

Emil Johann Oberhoffer was born near Munich, Bavaria onAugust 1867, to a musical family, his father being a well known organist, composer and provincial conductor, and his mother and siblings also making their marks. He showed early promise on the organ and violin, and was sent for training with the Josef Rheinberger disciple Cyrill Kistler, and later to Paris for intensive piano study with Isidor Philipp.

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